On the first day of Royal Ascot, the world's most famous horse race, the crowd rejoices in a string of winning favorites. Ned Talbot has worked all his life as a bookmaker — taking over the family business from his grandfather — so he knows not...
When Thomas Lyon decides to make a movie based on an unsolved crime that shocked the horseracing world in Wild Horses, he discovers that someone will do anything—including commit murder—to make sure this story isn’t...
As a child Edward Lincoln had had the run of a racing stable, and as a young man he had earned his living riding horses in films. So when a sick friend asked him to investigate the comprehensive failure of a string of racehorses, he knew more or...
To John Kendall, aged thirty-two, it seemed a good idea to throw in his well-paid job in order to write a novel, even though his only published works to date were six guidebooks on how to survive in jungles and deserts.
Ten hungry months later,...
Henry Grey didn’t particularly care for having been born the heir to an earldom. He was a reserved, practical young man who liked working with his hands and who sought only the right to live as he wished: but the nearest he had got to this was to...
Free choice? There's no such thing, according to Lee Morris. Choice is pre-ordained by your personality. Stratton Park racecourse faces ruin in the hands of a squabbling family. Lee is slowly sucked into the turmoil, unwillingly on the surface...
Gene Hawkins, investigator (of a special sort) by trade, was expert at arranging events so that they appeared accidental to all involved. Therefore when he himself became a witness to an “accident” his curiosity flared up bright, and he insisted...
Teenager Benedict Juliard has no other ambition than to ride in steeplechases as an amateur jockey. Having agreed not to do anything that could destroy his father’s growing public service and political career, Ben finds himself targeted in an...