DICK FRANCIS'S BLOODLINE

Felix Francis has taken the helm of the family business, the bestselling horse-racing mysteries of his father. He was the coauthor of four of the books before Dick's death in 2010. Two novels have appeared under his sole authorship since then, and he has captured his father's literary voice. Here a laid-back fellow is jolted into action by trouble in the racing world, the death of his twin sister, an up-and-coming jockey. Was it murder? There's no better narrator for this book as Martin Jarvis, who captures the accents and personalities to a tee. He moves through the text making the principal characters' emotions lucid and utterly convincing. Jarvis is a well-respected narrator and actor; listening to this, one understands why. D.R.W. © AudioFile 2013, Portland, Maine [Published: MARCH 2013]