Name: Play to the End
ISBN: 9780552164948

Robert Goddard

For actor Toby Flood, Brighton is the final week of a long tour. One night he is visited at the theatre by his estranged wife, Jenny, who, visibly scared, thinks she is being stalked. She asks Toby, for old times' sake, to find out what is going on. Alarmingly he discovers a sinister connection with Jenny's new partner. Spurred on by a desire to win Jenny back, Toby begins to ask some difficult questions. Before he fully understands the risks he is running, he finds himself caught up in a mysterious - and dangerous - tangle of family rivalries and murderous intent. Suddenly the prospects for his survival start to look very far from good...

Play to the End

Struggling actor Toby Flood, formerly of big and small screen but now seldom seen on either, arrives in Brighton on the first Sunday in December with the other cast members and reluctantly takes on a investigation into the sinister stranger who is apparently stalking his estranged wife. By the author of Into the Blue. Original. 22,500 first printing.

Amanda Wells

I have mixed feelings about this book - because in truth I did enjoy it. 
I found it easy to read, and I did want to know how it would resolve.

But there was just enough farce there, just enough requirement to suspend disbelief that it felt a bit like an episode of a British murder serial. 

I think that's why my first impressions were that this was a black comedy that forgot to be darkly humorous. The characters had it in them - but it just never took that turn, and in the end it felt disappointing. 

If you want a quick and relatively uncomplicated read - much as when you want to watch an episode of Midsomer Murders - go for it. If you're after something real and or clever, maybe seek elsewhere.

Play to the End

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