Three, Three, The Rivals (DCI Webb Mystery Book 10)

Three, Three, The Rivals (DCI Webb Mystery Book 10)

<b>'The book is a pleasure to read and savour' - <em>Woman Journalist</em></b><br /><br />When Sheila Fairchild wakes one night from a chilling nightmare, it brings back painful memories of the nightmares she suffered as a child. <br /><br />The following day, a prominent local landowner Billy Makepeace is found dead in the canal. <br /><br />It soon emerges that his death is anything but innocent, but when Sheila’s brother DCI Webb is assigned to the case, he has every reason for not wanting to get involved. <br /><br />Makepeace was an old rival of his father’s and it seems inevitable the investigation will stir up painful memories of an early life he had hoped to put behind him. <br /><br />But many questions still need to be answered. <br /><br />Why did Billy Makepeace telephone Sheila on the night he died? Especially when the two families, because of the old feud, never spoke.<br /><br />Why should Makepeace also have telephoned the local vicar? <br /><br />And whatever became of the third rival, Dick Vernon, who disappeared without a trace decades ago?<br /><br />When it emerges that Sheila’s nightmares may have their origins in a dreadful truth, it seems that DCI Webb may have to solve two murders instead of just one. <br /><br />In doing so, he may just find out the real reasons why there were three, three the rivals. <br /><br /><em>Three, Three, The Rivals</em> is another absorbing detective mystery from Anthea Fraser in the DCI Webb series. <br /><br /><h2>Praise for Anthea Fraser </h2><br /><br /><b>‘Ms Fraser is her dependable elegant, guileful self, withholding the killer's identity till a dying fall’ - <em>Sunday Times</em></b><br /><br /><b>‘A superbly crafted, riveting, page-turner of a read’ – <em>Booklist</em></b><br /><br /><b>’A well-mannered, well-plotted and well-told story’ - <em>Birmingham Post</em></b><br /><br /><b>‘Sympathetic, well-executed book, in which full attention is paid to human feelings and failings’ - <em>Yorkshire Post </em></b><br /><br /><b>'Irresistible, all-too-human story' - <em>Dread Review of Mystery</em></b><br /><br /><b>'A well-structured book, with good balance between depiction of character and development of plot' - <em>Criminologist</em></b><br /><br /><b> ‘Anthea Fraser is a worthy follower of the traditional whodunit system...The plot is sustained throughout, and her artistic detective who literally "draws conclusions" is an original character.' - <em>Sunderland Echo</em></b><br /><br /><b>Anthea Fraser</b> has written all her life but did not begin to take it seriously until after marriage, when she found herself at home with two small daughters and embarked on a correspondence course with the London School of Journalism. She wrote short stories before turning to novels of the supernatural, and then to crime. Her novels include <em>The Seven Stars</em>, <em>The Ten Commandments</em>, <em>Death Speaks Softly</em> and <em>Pretty Maids All in a Row</em>.