Blood on the Cards

A travelling fair brings fun and excitement to Nottery Quay but gruesome death too. A fortune teller is found with her throat cut in an isolated WWII pillbox by the Royal Military Canal. The fairground owner is suspected but, when a second body is found, DI Sonny Russell begins to wonder... Annoying his bombastic boss, Superintendent Stout, yet again, he is taken off the case. However, assisted by his French pal, Inspecteur Guillaume Bruissement, he pursues his own investigation. BLOOD ON THE CARDS is a gripping tale of intrigue that criss-crosses Sussex and Kent and ends in a desperate chase along the canal, with deadly consequences...

By Chris O'Donoghue