Mystery
Most of these books are the murder-mystery titles popular with so many people. My problem with this section is, once I start reading one, I can't put it down until it's finished!Pages: 12
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Back Hander
When jockey Lee Finney is killed in a fall at Haydock, Alan Morrell knows it should have been him.
Black Diamond - HB
Michael Knight and Lex Devlin agree to defend a jockey accused of murdering a fellow jockey during a race at Boston's Suffolk Downs
Blind Switch
"This accomplished first novel set in the world of horse racing is bound to be compared to the novels of Dick Francis..."
Blindfold
"The blindfold was a major hindrance. So much depended on body language with animals."
Bloodline - PB
When Mark Shillingford commentates on a race in which his twin sister Clare, an accomplished and successful jockey, comes in third, he can't help but be suspicious.
Bloodlines, A Horse Racing Anthology
From provocative peeks into the lives of jockeys, trainers, owners, and breeders, to the down and dirty doings of bookies and gamblers, here is a literary tribute to a favorite national pastime.
Break Neck
When apprentice jockey Rory Gillespie abandons his fiancee Laura Brickhill, in favour of trainer's daughter Pam Fanshaw, it's a decision made from ambition not love. And Rory has to wait ten years before Laura will forgive him.
Breeders - PB
Thoroughbred racing brings together all ethnic types in a unique temporary democracy where stable hands may interact with the very rich.
Chasing Cans: A Gail McCarthy Mystery
Horse Wreck - or was it Homicide? Chasing Cans is rodeo slang for barrel racing, a competition that can bring its winners fame and big bucks.
Close Call
Ex-amateur boxer and failed advertising account executive Jack Doyle, hero of Blind Switch, returns to the world of thoroughbred horse racing at a suburban Chicago track in this new thriller by the author of award-winning Riders Down.
Cover Up
What's the worse way to die? At the end of a rope driven by your own shame and despair? Or savaged in the jaws of a black-hearted stallion who has hated you for years? If only the bankrupt gambler and the stable girl were alive to give us the answers...
Crossfire - PB
Captain Thomas Forsyth's tour of Afghanistan, and perhaps his army career, are brutally cut short when he's badly hurt by a roadside bomb.
Cut Throat
Ross Wakelin, a talented American rider with a chequered past, has come to England hoping for a fresh start. But soon after he arrives at Oakley Manor yard he learns that all is not as it seems.
Cut Throat - PB
Ross Wakelin, a talented American rider with a chequered past, has come to England hoping for a fresh start. But soon after he arrives at Oakley Manor yard he learns that all is not as it seems.
Dangerous Outsider
A mysterious young Irish trainer backed by a financier who wishes to keep his identity hidden, moves to England and proceeds to take on his successful English counterpart Jay Jessop.
Dark Horse
In her latest thriller, New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag takes readers on a suspense-filled ride of shocks and twists leading to an explosive finish.
Dead Heat
'I wondered if I was dying. I wasn't afraid to die but, such was the pain in my gut, I wished it would happen soon.'
Dead Heat - HB
'I wondered if I was dying. I wasn't afraid to die but, such was the pain in my gut, I wished it would happen soon.'
Dead Horsemeat
Dominique Manotti is among the raciest and most incisive writers in France today. Dead Horsemeat is an inside account of horse-racing and drug-trafficking, political intrigue and criminal intent, public corruption and human decency.
Dead Man's Touch
Bruised in body and psyche from his adventures in At Risk, 22-year-old Steve Cline gets another blow in Dead Man's Touch: the sudden death of his estranged father.
Dead Weight
Phil Nicholas was one of the best jump jockeys around, winning championship after championship......until the fall. His body recovered from the devastating accident, but now he has nightmares, his confidence is shattered, and he freezes in the saddle.
Deadfall
Lincoln Tremayne, heir to a viscountcy and manager of his father's Dorset estate, has one burning ambition to be selected to ride on the British Olympic three-day team. But his dream is about to be put on hold.
Deadly Finish
With a blossoming career as a trainer and a beautiful Brazilian fiance'e by his side, everything is going Simon Waterford's way. To cap it all off, his two-year-old colt has just won a top race at Royal Ascot.
Derby Day - PB
As the shadows lengthen over the June grass, all England is heading for Epsom Downs – high life and low life, society beauties and Whitechapel street girls, bookmakers and gypsies, hawkers and acrobats, punters and thieves.
Dick Francis Boxed Set
A special release box-set including five paperback editions of some of Dick's most popular racing mysteries inlcluding Bolt, Forfeit, High Stakes, Knock Down & Slay-Ride
Even Money - PB
On the first day of Royal Ascot, the crowd rejoices in a string of winning favourites.
Free Fall
Like all jockeys, Pat Vincent had ambitions to win big races and make himself wealthy. But when Pat realises his career isn't going anywhere he devises a brilliant scam to fulfil his dreams.
Full Cry
Riding horseback, "Sister" Jane Arnold, the regal 72 year old master of foxhounds of the Jefferson Hunt Club, calmly surveys the peacefull rolling hills of Virginia, unaware that trouble is brewing.
Full Mortality: A Nikki Latrelle Racing Mystery
Jockey Nikki Latrelle gets the chance of a lifetime -- to ride the favorite in a stakes race -- only to have her dream destroyed when a mysterious intruder kills her mount the night before the race.
Gamble: A Dick Francis Novel - PVB
As one of the youngest ever winners of the Grand National, Nick 'Foxy' Foxton's career as a world class jockey is on perfect track until a near fatal accident cuts his dream brutally short.
High Flyer
Life hasn't been easy for Joey Leatham. As a tiny orphan he had to fight to survive. Then he escaped to a circus, where he was captivated by Nina Korsakov...
High Stakes - Two classic stories in one volume.
GYPSY WIND - Passions run high in horse-racing circles, but thoroughbred breeder Becca Peters keeps a tight rein on her emotions. Except when it comes to Brig Chambers.
Horse Dancer, The
Only the most talented horsemen are allowed into France's elite academy, Le Cadre Noir, a place where horses apparently defy gravity.
Horse Lover's Mystery01 - Saddled With Trouble - HB - Large Print
Trainer Michaela Bancroft has worked hard to make it in the man's world of showing and breeding quarter horses. After her husband leaves her for a younger woman, she's left with a broken heart and mounting debts.
Hotspur
A skeleton of a woman who disappeared twenty years ago is found on the grounds. Sister knows that all the players are probably still in place, the old feuds haven't died, and the sparks that led to a long-ago murder could flare up at any time.
Hounded to Death - HB
From "New York Times" bestselling author Rita Mae Brown comes the latest novel in her enthralling series of foxhunting mysteries.
Hugger Mugger
Someone's making death threats in Dixie - against a Thoroughbred horse destined to be the next Secretariat. At the owner's request, Boston P.I. Spenser hoofs it down south where the lies are buzzing and the dying is easy.
Hush Money - HB
When Hush Puppy, Pasadena's socialite Sydney Everett's champion show horse, dies under suspicious circumstances, junior lawyer Jack MacTaggart is assigned to handle the insurance claim.
Inside Track
When Jamie Hutchison is released from prison, all he wants to do is escape the past........
Keeneland
From award-winning writer Alyson Hagy comes a novel set at Kentucky's Keeneland racetrack, where the horses run for glory and people stake love and money -- all to win at the sport of kings.
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