August 16, 2009
Even Money
Small-time bookie Ned Talbot unexpectedly meets a man at the British Royal Ascot horse race claiming to be his father, Peter, who, along with his mother, died in a car crash when Ned was a baby. After an attacker fatally stabs Peter in the Ascot parking lot, Ned learns that for the past 36 years, his father has been wanted by police for the murder of his mother. Ned must uncover the startling truth in this multi-layered mystery, the third horse racing crime novel collaboration between former jockey Dick Francis and son Felix (Silks, 2008).
