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1) For kicks
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'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 of his troubles comes not from his enemies but from the two devastating daughters of October launch.
2) Forfeit
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From a New York Times bestseller, "a superb thriller . . . terrific" about a sportswriter who risks his own life investigating a suspicious death (San Francisco Chronicle).
Dick Francis, Edgar-Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
When reporter Bert Chekov falls to his death, his colleague James Tyrone is suspicious. Chekov's column had recently recommended some 'can't-lose' horses,...
3) Trial run
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Veteran horseman Randall Drew travels to Mosow to help the Russian royal family--but ends up caught in a world of jealousy, sabotage, and murder.
4) The danger
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When Alessia Cenci, a young champion jockey, is kidnapped in Bologna, agent Andrew Douglas is sent to secure her release. For Andrew, the bungling of the Italian police is only the first in a chain of catastrophic events he cannot control.
5) Slay ride
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"When a champion jockey disappears--right before a big race and the birth of his child--British investigator David Cleveland bets on foulplay"--Back cover.
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Mikira, a seventeen-year-old daughter of a famous horse breeder, takes part in a magical horserace to save her family, and enlists the help of Arielle, a talented, black-market enchanter, and Damien, a young lord involved in a succession battle, who both have their own motives for helping her.
7) Bonecrack
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In charge of his father's stables after a grisly accident lands the old man in the hospital, Neil Grifton finds himself brutally assaulted and abducted and forced to make a tough decision about the business.
9) Blind switch
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Jack Doyle horseracing mysteries volume 1
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Desperate Jack Doyle accepts a sketchy job which leads to a deadly game of fixing horse races and murder-of the four-legged kind.... One-time amateur boxer Jack Doyle, an irreverent and rebellious advertising account representative, goes to work one fine Chicago day and finds his desk-and his job-both gone. A two-time loser at the marriage game as well, Doyle, usually ultra-confident, fishes himself out of a bottle to take stock, realizing, "with...
10) Comeback
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A young British diplomat's return to England revives long-buried childhood memories that could be the key to saving innocent people from destruction.
11) Dead heat
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Jump jockey Harry Radcliffe is forced to turn reluctant sleuth yet again in the fourth of this fast-paced, highly entertaining racing mystery series.
Champion jockey Harry Radcliffe is reeling from the knowledge that his recent attempt to solve a murder led to horse-box driver John Dunston's suicide. Or did it? A letter handed to Harry at John's funeral suggests all is not as it seems, and Harry is soon plunged into another dangerous investigation....
12) PARADISE COUNTY
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The rolling fields of Shelby County are home to some of the finest horseflesh and bluest blood in Kentucky. With its rural beauty and tranquil lifestyle, it is easy to see why the locals call it Paradise County. But beneath the serene exterior lies a dark underside, and an evil that threatens everyone who touches it. Alexandra Haywood and her younger sister, Neely, have always loved Whistledown, the family's magnificent Shelby County horse farm. After...
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Boris (Andrew Joyner) volume 3
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School field day is coming up and Boris and his friends are practicing hard because they are determined not to let Eddie win again, but on race day Boris is forced to choose between winning and friendship.
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In Today I'm a Racecar Driver, kids will follow Leo, a racecar driver, and get to see the various jobs on a race track and the tools used to keep a race car up and running. Filled with colorful images and fun car vocabulary, young children will get a glimpse of what it's like to be a racecar driver.
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McKee, now officially employed by the Thoroughbred Racing Protective Bureau (TPRB), is sent undercover to Saratoga Racetrack to investigate Mars Pizutti, a racehorse trainer whose horses' wins are suspiciously lucky--and lucrative. Fia's bosses believe Pizutti's success is based on illegal drugs and deceitful methods, and they want Fia to work inside his barn to ferret out the truth. But after witnessing the tragic and inexplicable suicide of a jockey,...
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"Murder on the Iditarod Trail is a gripping mystery set during Alaska's world-famous Iditarod, a grueling eleven-hundred-mile dogsled race across hazardous Arctic terrain. It is an arduous sport, but not a deadly one-until now. Suddenly the top Iditarod contestants are dying in bizarre ways: First a veteran musher smashes into a tree, then competitors begin turning up dead, with each murder more brutal than the last. State trooper Alex Jensen begins...
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"1927. Olivia "Livy" West is a fearless young pilot with a love of adventure. She yearns to cross oceans and travel the skies. When she learns of the Dole Air Race -- a high-stakes contest to be the first to make the 2,400 mile Pacific crossing from the West Coast to Hawaii -- she sets her sights on qualifying. But it soon becomes clear that only men will make the cut. In a last-ditch effort to take part, Livy manages to be picked as a navigator for...
20) Dead reckoning
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"Champion jockey Harry Radcliffe is forced to enter another deadly game when he finds the body of local prostitute Alice Goode. The prime suspect for her murder is ex-con Jake Smith. When Jake demands that Harry gets him off the hook by tracking down the real killer, Harry has no choice but to agree, not when the life of his estranged, pregnant wife Annabel is at stake -- as well as his own. As Harry begins to question Alice's former clients, he uncovers...
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