Three, Three, The Rivals (DCI Webb Mystery Book 10)

'The book is a pleasure to read and savour' - Woman Journalist

When Sheila Fairchild wakes one night from a chilling nightmare, it brings back painful memories of the nightmares she suffered as a child.

The following day, a prominent local landowner Billy Makepeace is found dead in the canal.

It soon emerges that his death is anything but innocent, but when Sheila’s brother DCI Webb is assigned to the case, he has every reason for not wanting to get involved.

Makepeace was an old rival of his father’s and it seems inevitable the investigation will stir up painful memories of an early life he had hoped to put behind him.

But many questions still need to be answered.

Why did Billy Makepeace telephone Sheila on the night he died? Especially when the two families, because of the old feud, never spoke.

Why should Makepeace also have telephoned the local vicar?

And whatever became of the third rival, Dick Vernon, who disappeared without a trace decades ago?

When it emerges that Sheila’s nightmares may have their origins in a dreadful truth, it seems that DCI Webb may have to solve two murders instead of just one.

In doing so, he may just find out the real reasons why there were three, three the rivals.

Three, Three, The Rivals is another absorbing detective mystery from Anthea Fraser in the DCI Webb series.

Praise for Anthea Fraser

‘Ms Fraser is her dependable elegant, guileful self, withholding the killer's identity till a dying fall’ - Sunday Times

‘A superbly crafted, riveting, page-turner of a read’ – Booklist

’A well-mannered, well-plotted and well-told story’ - Birmingham Post

‘Sympathetic, well-executed book, in which full attention is paid to human feelings and failings’ - Yorkshire Post

'Irresistible, all-too-human story' - Dread Review of Mystery

'A well-structured book, with good balance between depiction of character and development of plot' - Criminologist

‘Anthea Fraser is a worthy follower of the traditional whodunit system...The plot is sustained throughout, and her artistic detective who literally "draws conclusions" is an original character.' - Sunderland Echo

Anthea Fraser has written all her life but did not begin to take it seriously until after marriage, when she found herself at home with two small daughters and embarked on a correspondence course with the London School of Journalism. She wrote short stories before turning to novels of the supernatural, and then to crime. Her novels include The Seven Stars, The Ten Commandments, Death Speaks Softly and Pretty Maids All in a Row.