A smash hit novel now in trade?from ?a rare and magical talent? who never writes the same story twice.?(San Diego Union-Tribune)
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Slay Ride finds British investigator David Cleveland betting on foul play when a champion jockey disappears?right before a big race and the birth of his child?
“Nobody sets up a mystery better than Dick Francis.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
"One of the greatest living suspense writers."
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British investigator David Cleveland has come to Oslo to investigate a champion jockey's disappearance right before the National, a race he was certain to win. But he's almost drowned in a fjord for his troubles. David knows accident and coincidence couldn't begin to explain this little mishap or the oncoming gruesome string of deaths that David Cleveland would find was meant to include his own....