About the Book
Book: The Luck of the Draw
Author: Kate Darroch
Genre: Humorous British Detective Story
Release Date: August 9, 2024
Hunt’s back in court – as the defendant! Why is our suave hero in hot water? Can his friend and colleague Genie-Penny save him yet again? Will she want to? Or is Hunt playing a deep double game? Find out in The Luck of the Draw
Book Excerpt
I would not have a wonderful time, and I lose no time in making that clear.
“I like betting on the gee-gees, Genie-Penny, not gambling in casinos. Only suckers think they can beat the house. I don’t bet in order to lose money.”
This is true. At least half the eight million I currently have in the bank is the result of judiciously placed turf bets and still more judicious re-investment on the stock market. I’m just a little bit prescient. I get flashes of the future. Now and then, when I look over the horseflesh parading in the paddock at Newmarket, I see a winner.
My glimpses of the winners circle are not 100% reliable. Once in a great while, I lose my shirt. That just makes betting on the races bigger fun. It’s more sporting when the bookies get a chance to win their money back. Although I never give them the chance to win more than half their money back. There’s a difference between being a good sport and being a pauper.
The point is, you can’t do that in casinos. Because the house always rigs the odds.
Gina continues, her gaze still glued to the screen in front of her, “You won’t be losing, Hunt. Not this time.”
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About the Author
Twice Indie Spotlighted by Publishers Weekly; the 2022 and 2024 winner of the Incipere Award for Christian Fiction, 2022 winner of the Readers Favorite Gold Medal for Humor, and of many mystery book awards, Kate hopes that her readers will enjoy her Màiri Maguire Cozy Mysteries.
Kate also writes Sweets by The Sea, a series of Second Chance for Lasting Love novels that combine the themes of forgiveness, redemption and recovery, set in sleepy Welcombe Bay on the gorgeous Devon coastline. Kate’s readers say these love stories are even sweeter than her Cozies. Thanksgiving in Welcombe Bay, the first book in the series, took First Place in the 2024 Incipere Awards for Christian Fiction and Clean Women’s Fiction; and in the Pencraft Christian Fiction Awards.
Yet it is when writing the Huntingdon Hart Investigates series that Kate has the most fun. Hunt’s story has not been accorded any accolades, but he takes that in his stride – a prophet is never appreciated at home. Although, as Hunt modestly points out, he’s not a prophet, just a genius! A smidgin of prescience, together with skills honed by his earlier service in MI5 and MI6, make Hunt a force to be reckoned with. But not in the eyes of his beloved, the divine Sophia, twenty years his senior and younger than spring, who refuses to take Hunt’s pursuit of her seriously