TY - BOOK AU - Francis,Felix TI - Crisis: a Dick Francis novel T2 - A Dick Francis novel SN - 9781471173110 (hardback) U1 - 823.92 23 PY - 2018/// CY - London PB - Simon & Schuster KW - Detective and mystery stories KW - Suspense fiction KW - Legal stories KW - fast KW - Horse racing KW - Murder KW - Investigation KW - Race horses KW - Lawyers KW - Fiction KW - Legal fiction KW - lcgft KW - Thrillers (Fiction) KW - Thriller fiction KW - gsafd KW - Mystery fiction KW - Legal fiction (Literature) KW - Detective and mystery fiction N1 - Also published: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2018] N2 - Harrison (Harry) Foster is a lawyer by training but works as a crisis manager. Summoned to Newmarket after a fire in the Chadwick Stables slaughters six very valuable horses, finds there is far more to the 'simple' fire than initially meets the eye. For a start, human remains are found amongst the equestrian ones in the burnt-out shell. All the stable staff are accounted for, so who is the mystery victim? The Chadwick family are a dysfunctional racing dynasty, with the emphasis being on the nasty. Resentment between the generations is rife and sibling rivalry bubbles away like volcanic magma beneath a thin crust of respectability. Harry represents the Middle-Eastern owner of the Derby favourite and, as he delves deeper into the unanswered questions surrounding the horse's demise, he ignites a fuse that blows the volcano sky-high, putting him in grave jeopardy ER -