# Deadly Finish

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- Book: [Deadly Finish](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-francome/deadly-finish) ([Deadly Finish.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-francome/deadly-finish.md))
- Authors: [John Francome](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-francome)
- Publisher: headline
- ISBN: 978-07-5534-992-0
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2010-09-16
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

It's summer, Royal Ascot, and life is good for young trainer Simon Waterford. He has inherited his father's top-class yard, his brilliant two-year-old has just won the Coventry Stakes and he is soon to marry his beautiful half-Brazilian girlfriend. But Mariana has a secret which would wreck her hopes of marriage - and which Geoff has found out. And he has threatened to tell Simon. On their way back from the races, two rough-looking young men pass lewd comments about Mariana. There's not much of a brawl - it's over too quickly and is hardly even-handed - but it leaves Mariana in a sea of blood tending to Simon's wounded face and Geoff lies dead on the floor. It's a tragedy, of course, but Mariana can't help but feel relieved. Her secret is safe, for now...