The Laughter of FoolsWho was the mysterious Rosa? Why did she visit the large house where Jeannie's mother works? What dark secret was she hiding? What hold did she have over the rich old lady upstairs, and Jeannie's hardworking mother downstairs? How different the history of the world might have been if Rosa's father, poultryman Pegglar, creator of Pegglar's Fancy' and 'Pegglar's Pride', had not defied his elder sisters one year by going to the Annual Exotic Poultry Show

fantastic read

yet never fails to entertain

are faced with a case of extraordinary complexity as they discover the Berowne family's veneer of prosperous gentility conceals ugly and dangerous family secrets

decent and finds new ways of making wild comedy out of fantastically dark material

with thanks and best wishes" by Dick Francis and Felix Francis

The author's other novels include "Into the Blue"

From a brave girls determination to protect her younger sister as methamphetamine ravages their family

After famine

And if he can't make it through the forest to civilization

Thomas soon discovers that nothing at court is straightforward

In a silent valley in southern France stands an isolated stone farmhouse

everyone is a suspect