A Foreign Office agent (I think that either means diplomat, diplomatic worker, or some kind of non-spy spy) returns to the village he grew up in and become embroiled in a mystery at a veterinary surgery where horses keep dying.

Although not a perfect book, it was great fun. There's a few characters who don't seem to have a reason for being in the book (apart from adding to the word count), but I loved it all. Fast paced and I didn't see the end coming.

Read as part of my 50 horse books to read in 2018 challenge.

Excellent!!!!! Well worth reading and re-reading!!!!

Peter Darwin returns to England after 20 years and is helping an older couple that he helped in Miami after a mugging. He ends up in the town he grew up in and meets the daughter and fiance who both work in a veterinary office. Several of Ken's horse patients have unexpectedly died. Peter and Ken try to find out why. This book reminds me of Banker but this one is from the veterinarian side of things.

This is an excellent mystery set within the grounds of a veterinary hospital and among The racing stables in Cheltenham.