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1) Longshot
Author
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
When he is hired to write the biography of a racehorse trainer, author John Kendall encounters more than he bargained for as he stumbles into a web of danger and death in rural England.
2) Straight
Author
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
Derek is thrust into trouble and danger after the death of his brother. His only hope of survival is to identify the enemy.
3) Blood sport
Author
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Formats
Description
From a New York Times bestseller, “galloping entertainment” about a British secret agent searching for a missing racehorse in the United States (Kirkus Reviews).
Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
With only his tormented past for company, Gene Hawkins is restlessly facing three lonely weeks...
Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
With only his tormented past for company, Gene Hawkins is restlessly facing three lonely weeks...
4) In the frame
Author
Series
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
The murder of his cousin's wife involves an English painter in the pursuit of an Australian art forging gang.
5) Enquiry
Author
Language
English
Description
"No jockey like being labelled a cheat. Least of all by a Stewards' Enquiry. Kelly Hughes' career looks doomed. He knows he's been framed, but finding the reason could prove dangerous. Especially with a killer on his tail." Originally published: London: Michael Joseph, 1969.
7) Reflex
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When a fellow racetrack photographer dies, Philip Nore has many questions about his death. He learns quickly the answers lie hidden in some discarded rolls of film. Philip unwittingly becomes the killer's next victim.
8) For kicks
Author
Series
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
Formats
Description
From a New York Times–bestselling “master of crime fiction and equine thrills,” a horse breeder goes undercover to investigate a horse doping scheme (Newsday).
Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
Australian horse breeder Daniel Roke had resisted the exorbitant sum of money offered by a...
Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
Australian horse breeder Daniel Roke had resisted the exorbitant sum of money offered by a...
9) Comeback
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Foreign Office British diplomat, Peter Darwin uses all of his skills to solve a veterinary surgeon's race-horse nightmare.
10) Break in
Author
Series
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
Slurs in a gossip column jeopardize the business of Holly and Bobby Allardeck. Holly's twin brother, steeplechase jockey Kit Fielding, searches for the person behind the plot.
11) Forfeit
Author
Language
English
Description
Jim Tyrone is commissioned to do a sports story on the Lamplighter horse race. He suddenly finds himself involved in a mysterious death and a fight against the bookmakers who have been tampering with the odds.
12) Come to grief
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A stunning successor to Whip Hand, starring ex-champion-jockey-turned-investigator Sid Halley. Having exposed an adored racing figure as a monster, Sid must testify at the man's trial. But, on the morning of his appearance, a tragic suicide shatters the proceedings and jars Sid's conscience, leading him to believe that there's more to the death than has yet come to light.
13) Decider
Author
Language
English
Description
Architect Lee Morris has plans to restore Stratton Park racecourse to its former grandeur. But the combative Stratton heirs have violent plans of their own.
14) Odds against
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When a crippled hand forces jockey Sid Halley to turn to another career, he becomes involved in saving a racecourse from a greedy land grabber.
15) Dead cert
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Story of murder and suspense, with English steeplechasing for its background.
16) Shattered
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When glassblower Gerard Logan investigates a friend's death after a racecourse fall, he finds more hazards in his path than he ever thought possible.
17) 10 lb. penalty
Author
Language
English
Description
At age eighteen, Benedict Juliard pledged never to do anything that would destroy or hinder his father's political career, but years later, with George Juliard headed for the office of prime minister, Benedict is attacked by an allegation of drug abuse and must scramble to find out who is publishing the false reports and why.
18) Nerve
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"A man doesn't shoot himself in the head in broad daylight with no warning. But Art Matthews did. Pip Pankhurst found his shin bone sticking out of his leg, and his rides over for the season. Grant Oldfield needed help. The kind a psychiatrist gives. It was as though there was a hoodoo on the whole jockey tribe." -- Cover.
19) To the hilt
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Al Kinloch, a young painter who lives in seclusion on a Scottish mountain is called to London to save his family from financial ruin. It happens after the director of the family brewery embezzles the funds. Far from being a babe in the woods, the painter does an excellent job.--
20) Crossfire
Author
Language
English
Description
Captain Thomas Forsyth's tour of duty in Afghanistan is cut brutally short when he's badly wounded by a roadside bomb. Tom returns to his childhood home in Lambourn, where his mother is a racehorse trainer and the "First Lady" of racing....
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