By Dick Francis (read by Tony Britton)
I intensely disliked my father's fifth wife, but not to the point of murder.
What a great opening line! Fourteen words in and we already have a corpse and a rather complicated corpse at that.
Arbitrageur Malcolm Pembroke has the Midas touch and someone is trying to kill him. Who? Why?
He enlists his son by his second wife , Ian, to play bodyguard and to figure out which of his family members is out to get him. Who else would it be but a family member? There are plenty of suspects because Malcolm has 5 wives (2 deceased by the start of the story), 9 children (and their 5 spouses) -- and we get to meet them all. This all makes for a delightfully complicated story that will keep you guessing right up to the very last second.
Four and a half stars. Because it is explosive. Because it is full of family drama that doesn't suck the joy out of the reader.
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