Driving Force

Freddie Croft is an ex-jockey who, since retiring, has built a very profitable business transporting horses to races and back for their owners. Freddie loved being a jockey and this is a way of keeping his hand in the game, at least to some extent. He runs a pretty tight ship, but his whole enterpri......more

Freddie runs a successful horse transport business. A hitchhiker dies in one of his transports which uncovers a conspiracy involving a complicated way to nobble racehorses. Throw in some touchy customers and a geriatric horse charity managed by someone with a chip on their shoulder and we have a cla......more

Thoroughly enjoyed this mystery and learned another aspect of the horse racing business - transportation. This became a convoluted, interesting plot and it made a sharp turn in a direction I wasn't expecting towards the end. It involved "illegal" passengers - human, animal & insects. It led to murde......more