Requiem for a Dealer
A Brodie Farrell Mystery
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
You can waste a lot of time looking. . . . Or you can pay me to find it for you.
Brodie Farrell is a busy woman, what with running her one-woman firm Looking for Something? and raising her daughter. So on her night off, all she wants is to spend a relaxing evening teaching her friend Daniel Hood to drive. But the evening takes a disturbing turn when Daniel hits a young woman who seems to appear out of nowhere. The girl, Alison Barker, is mostly uninjured, but before she runs off she accuses Daniel of trying to kill her.
The other man in Brodie's life, Detective Superintendent Jack Deacon, isn't much help; he's too busy investigating a dangerous new drug called Scram. But when Alison Barker turns up at the hospital, not as a result of the car accident but because of the lethal amount of Scram in her system, Jack is forced to get involved. Alison claims that the death of her father, a local purebred horse dealer, was murder---and that unless someone helps her, she'll be next.
Brodie once again finds herself torn between the two men in her life---Daniel believes Alison's story, Jack doesn't. It's up to Brodie to infiltrate Alison's world of show jumping and discover the truth herself, before it's too late.
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In Bannister's riveting sixth mystery about professional finder Brodie Farrell (after 2005's Breaking Faith), Brodie's driving lesson for her friend Daniel Hood, a mild-mannered math teacher, comes to a screeching halt long before he's anywhere near the speed limit in their hometown of Dimmock, England. A young women dashes into the street, collides with the car and instead of accepting their help, accuses Daniel of trying to kill her before stumbling off into the dark. Daniel will cross paths again with the girl, whose story also interlocks with an investigation Brodie's boyfriend, Det. Supt. Jack Deacon, is conducting into a potent new illegal drug that's landing teens in the hospital and morgue. Bannister artfully works Brodie's, Daniel's and Jack's relationship issues into her carefully plotted tale of drug dealers and murder.
