Dick Francis's Damage

3.5 stars Someone seems bent on disrupting British horseracing. A couple of trainers have been suspended for doping horses - though they claim innocence - and one has been driven to murder. Soon afterwards mandatory testing after a big race reveals that many horses - from stables across the United Kin......more

I believe this is Felix Francis’s first book of a series about Jefferson Roosevelt Hinkley. Hinkley is an investigator for the British Horse Racing Authority. He is investigating a banned horse trainer, Mathew Unwin. The book is well written. The plot twists and turns. The characters are interesting......more

Dick and Felix Francis's horse racing mysteries are still a good read. The authors combine a knowledge of everything horse racing with, an amateur investigator, a jockey, ex-jockey or owner, among others, who somehow stumbles into a plot against friends or horse racing and has to out man, outwit and......more