Welcome
THE DARE SOCIETY
Why the mystery, can anybody join?
Davinia, Alec, Roger, Evangeline ... and a border collie called Myfanwy, comprise DARE - a group of talented, resourceful, yet traumatised souls, who seek to justify their continued existence by tackling cases the police can’t touch. Their approach is imaginative, but the risks they take are frankly foolhardy.
Old people, young people, sunshine cruises and suicide
When old people with life insurance start dying like day lilies, DARE risks its members’ lives to uncover an organisation which not only enjoys a considerable vested interest in those deaths but whose operatives are actively hastening them. Immoral? You bet. Illegal? Not on your life.
But when student suicides at Manderville College increase alarmingly, and the police are convinced a website is to blame - DARE suspects a different motive. Yet just when life is regaining some worth, to expose the truth, DARE must sacrifice one of its number.
Who is this new book for?
Sometimes likened to the Famous Five for adults, the DARE stories are for readers who enjoy pacy, suspense mysteries with complex plots and plenty of cliff hangers but who balk at gore, gratuitous violence or overly explicit sex.
The age span of the DARE protagonists (from 38 to 62), and the sharper edge, will appeal to those for whom Agatha Raisin is too rice-pudding friendly and Val McDermid too gut-wrenching.
The DARE Society is for everyone who sees injustice and wishes they could set it straight.
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