Dead Ringer
By Roger Ormerod
Well-known stuntman Jerry Boyes suffers a fatal car accident that leaves him maimed and unable to work. When ex-actor Stuart Tyson offers Jerry three thousand for just one week’s work, Jerry finds that the price of easy money will have serious consequences. All Jerry has to do is to hand over half a million in ransom money to the kidnappers of Howard Maxwell. Jerry agrees to help distraught wife Kathleen Maxwell, but he cannot help feeling that things are not what they seem. In a bid to clear his name he investigates the situation himself and becomes entangled in a long standing rivalry which is escalating to deadly levels. A rich man has plenty of enemies, and when a murder occurs, the case is thrown wide open. ‘Dead Ringer’ is a fast-paced and complex crime that will grip readers from the first page to the last.