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Bells On Her Toes

por Diana J. Febry

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DCI Peter Hatherall is called in to investigate a shooting on the Earl of Ditchburn's country estate. The Earl's activities have angered animal rights and environmental groups but subsequent deaths suggest Elmsgrove Racehorse Yard is the target. There is more at stake than a horse race and time is running out for Hatherall to solve the case before the culprit kills again.… (más)
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I kept thinking throughout this novel what a strange pair these detectives are. Fiona Williams is given to flights of imagination and Peter Hatherall is at times an unmitigated disaster, and an extreme liability to his partner. They are constantly coming up with unlikely scenarios particularly related to the motives for the murders they are investigating. Both have domestic problems and in Hatherall's case these frequently impact on his ability to work. Hatherall appears to be often on the brink of dismissal.

In the working out of the plot there are some extremely interesting characters, including Bunny, the ex-actress married to the Earl, Gladys who also sees herself as an ex-actress, a friend of Bunny's, and is married to one of the murder victims. (For me she came across as a bit over-drawn and much younger than she in fact is.) In an effort to provide a series of red herrings, the author comes up with a considerable range of sub-plots.

By the end there are three bodies resulting from linked elements in the plots.

A good read. ( )
  smik | Dec 15, 2021 |
Febry has done it again - providing an amazing who-done-it mystery that I couldn't put down. I love trying to solve these before the books end and I have become a huge DCI Peter Hatherall fan! Looking forward to many more! ( )
  CAKing | Oct 30, 2020 |
This is a nicely done mystery set in a horse-racing training yard and told from the point of view of two police detectives. There are enough expected elements of the literary rural British subgenre to make it comfortable and compelling for a cozy read, but enough twists to keep it from being overly predictable. The protagonists are believable and have hints dropped to their back stories to make me go looking for other books they might have appeared in (or will appear perhaps, in subsequent works). The other characters, like most of us in real life, have strengths and foibles that lead police and reader alike to consider how much of their resentments, or economic dislocation, or emotional instability could have led to murder.

The author provides just enough description of horse-training yards and their training staffs for non-racing readers like me to understand the roles and economic dynamics, but never to the point of distracting from the story. All in all, a very nice read, and I’ll be adding Diana Febry to my go-to list when looking for good mysteries in a setting very different from my own. ( )
  bkshs | Feb 14, 2015 |
Interesting!

It's a well-written story full of suspense in an investigation into murders, that lead to figure out that the target is Elmsgrove Racehorse Yard. I like a story that keeps you on your toes, and this one definitely does. It lives up to its title. Just when you think you figure it out, you get another twist. The characters were well developed and engaging. My kind of story. ( )
  amyshan | Oct 7, 2014 |
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DCI Peter Hatherall is called in to investigate a shooting on the Earl of Ditchburn's country estate. The Earl's activities have angered animal rights and environmental groups but subsequent deaths suggest Elmsgrove Racehorse Yard is the target. There is more at stake than a horse race and time is running out for Hatherall to solve the case before the culprit kills again.

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