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The Chasing Hares by James, Christina (Christina A.), author is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Chasing Hares about?

Gordon Bemrose, a shady local businessman who lives in a large house on an island in the River Welland, decides he can make easy money from the property by using it for Country House murder weekends. For the first, introductory, weekend he recruits ten people from very different backgrounds: Ava and Reggie Dack and Lizzie and Jackson Fox, two self-made couples from Essex; Sonia and Richard Renwick, respectively a successful beautician and her husband, who is a failed writer; Dora Westerman, a lady of indeterminate age and obviously very slender means; Amelia Baker, an English literature student; and Margarett and Colin Franklin, a mixed-race couple of modest origins whom all the others look down upon. Reluctantly assisting with the festivities are Patti Gardner, Gordon’s niece, who has been roped in to speak about the work of a SOCO, and Anton Greenweal, his nephew, who has achieved instant fame on a TV reality show and will be the lead actor in a short play to be performed during the weekend. The play is central to Gordon’s plans: he intends it to be based on a popular farce, but with a macabre twist as its finale. Events take an unexpected turn when a real murder takes place; and

Who reads The Chasing Hares?

Author

James, Christina (Christina A.), author

Publisher

Salt Publishing Limited

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9781784631895

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Contemporary Fiction, Fiction