Book Review: Enquiry by Dick Francis

Kelly Hughes is a jockey who has been accused of being a cheat in a Steward’s enquiry. We are back in the horse racing world of Dick Francis, that is a great place to be! Kelly, with the help of his employer’s daughter Kelly investigates all of those who have testified against him in an effort to clear his name.

He uncovers evidence that the Chief Steward is being blackmailed and he drives on with his investigations to discover that the perpetrator behind all of this is someone who has motives for his actions. The criminal is someone that we can believe and maybe we are not so far away from crimes as we may think, the man is suffering from many of the pressures we suffer from albeit in more exaggerated form.

There is a touch of romance in the novel too as well as a page turning read all round.

8/10 for me on this one.