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Dick Francis's Bloodline

by Felix Francis
8 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 9¼ hrs. Recorded Bks. 2012. ISBN 9781470303778. $92.75; 1 MP3-CD. library ed.; Playaway digital; digital download. MYS
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When race caller Mark Shillingford's twin sister, Clare, plunges from a London hotel balcony, he investigates her death, which the police have labeled a suicide. That Clare, a jockey, admitted to throwing races and romancing a mystery lover complicates the range of suspects connected with her death. When someone attempts to kill Mark, he redoubles his familial sleuthing with personal urgency. Francis's last four novels were coauthored with son Felix, and since the elder Francis's death in 2010, his son has created solo entries in the series. AudioFile Golden Voice Martin Jarvis is a veteran Dick Francis narrator, and his reading enhances a tepid plot with BBC-announcer gravity.
VERDICT Fans of Francis and of light mysteries will be rewarded by insider details about race announcing and a satisfying, cinematic, knuckle-biting climax.
Reviewed by Judith Robinson, Univ. at Buffalo , Mar 15, 2013
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