Blood and Sangria — Robert Leader

THE MEDITERRANEAN ISN'T JUST SUN, SAND AND SANGRIA �"- IT'S DRUG-RUNNING, HI-JACKING AND MURDER Judy and Ben Kane have moved to Porto Viejo in Spain to run a small, harbor-front bar. A car accident has forced Ben's early retirement from the Breckland Fire brigade and Judy has resigned from her job as a Detective Sergeant in the Breckland Police to join him. However, Judy's crime fighting instincts soon come to the fore when a body is trawled up from the sea in the nets of a local fishing boat. Judy recognizes the photo-fit picture that appears in the newspapers as an old friend from her training days. Soon it becomes clear that they are up against a highly skilled gang running a joint piracy and drug smuggling operation. Yachts are disappearing regularly in the Mediterranean. The owners are presumably being murdered and thrown overboard and the vessels then used to run one or two drug running trips before being re-registered and sold on. There are two prime suspects, both named Harry. “Tweedledum and Tweedledee,” Ben observes wryly, “Harry A or Harry B?” Just one question to answer, but as Judy doggedly gets closer to the truth she finds that their lives depend upon getting the answer right.