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"Theo Jennings, an auctioneer in Newmarket, England, has been climbing the ladder at the bloodstock sales company for the past three years. He's planning on making his first ever multi-million sale with a yearling colt. When he finds the colt dead a few days after the auction, Th...

Once more, death comes to the races. The reputation of Max Moreton, a rising culinary star, suffers a setback when his guests at a private function fall victim to food poisoning. The next day, at a major racing event, a bomb rips through a luncheon Max is catering. Could it be th...

In this next installment of the 'Dick Francis' series, Sid Halley is brought in to investigate a stalking-turned-murder case. With his life and reputation on the line, Sid races to solve the case before someone else ends up dead.

Ex-champion steeplechase jockey Sid Haley is now a sleuth. As the story opens he has just been shot in the stomach during the course of his duties as a private investigator, working - or rather, idling - in a firm which keeps him employed, thanks to the old boy network. Convalesc...

Theo Jennings, an up-and-coming auctioneer in Newmarket, England, is planning on making his first ever multi-million sale with a yearling colt -- until it's found dead. When a person's body is discovered in the same stable a few days later, all fingers point to him. The only way ...

'It is said that everyone over a certain age can remember distinctly what they were doing when they heard that President Kennedy had been assassinated, or that Princess Diana had been killed in a Paris car crash, but I, for one, could recall all too clearly where I was standing w...

An old friend in need, a dangerous conspiracy - a new case for Sid Halley ... Sid Halley, former British jump racing champion and private detective, is not having a good time. His wife Marina has decided she needs some time out of their marriage to think about the future and Sid ...

An old friend in need, a dangerous conspiracy - a new case for Sid Halley ... Sid Halley, former British jump racing champion and private detective, is not having a good time. His wife Marina has decided she needs some time out of their marriage to think about the future and Sid ...

"In England to interview a successful racehorse trainer, writer of travel guides and survival expert John Kendall begins digging for the truth and encounters danger." -- Amazon.ca

On the first day of Royal Ascot, small-time bookmaker Ned Talbot finds his life thrown into turmoil when a man claiming to be his father--whom he had long thought to be dead--becomes the victim of a stabbing at the race track and passes along a mysterious warning to Ned.

'For Kicks ' is a spy story. Faced with a threat to the whole sport of steeplechasing, the stewards decide that only an undercover operation can succeed in revealing the mystery. Daniel Roke, taking on the job light-heartedly, finds himself headed for deadly danger. Yet the worst...

Miles Pussett is a former steeplechase jockey. Now he gets his adrenalin rush from riding down the Cresta Run, a three-quarter-mile Swiss ice chute, head first, reaching speeds of up to eighty miles per hour. Finding himself in St Moritz during the same weekend as White Turf, whe...