Time to Pay

by Lyndon Stacey

Book Overview

Revenge has no limits...

Damien Daniels has been murdered; shot through the chest by an unseen marksman. It looks like a professional job but there are no clues as to who pulled the trigger.

The only witness to the shooting, Gideon Blake, is unable to provide any information that would help the police. However, a cryptic list he later discovers hidden amongst the dead man's possessions warns of a dark and terrible conspiracy...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 009948708X
• ISBN13: 9780099487081
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Random House UK
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.5" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

A ripping good read - deserving successor to Dick Francis!

I just picked up this book at the Salvation Army thrift store yesterday. The dust jacket blurb had something about "Dick Francis" so I thought it was by him, and was hoping it wasn't one I had read. Opened it, started reading, thought "No, I haven't read this one" and it wasn't for a few chapters that I realized this wasn't a Dick Francis novel at all! That's intended as a high compliment to the author, by the way. It was easy to get confused because the nice pace, strong characters, easy dialogue and horsey background are all very Francis-esque. I'm not going to get into the plot because that would possibly spoil things...I did have one quibble/question about the plot which I sent to the author on her web site, so I'll leave it there, as it's a spoiler. Just to say, the protagonist, Gideon, is a thoroughly likeable man with all the qualities you look for in a "hero" - goodlooking, resourceful, brave, and a dogged detective. The threads of the story are laid out plausibly and it's a real pleasure to watch Gideon follow where they lead.

English horseracing and murder

Lyndon Stacey's books are just wonderful. You can't put them down, trite, but true.