Новинки Феликса Фрэнсиса

An old friend in need, a dangerous conspiracy – a new case for Sid Halley…
Sid Halley, former British jump racing champion and private detective, is not having a good time. His wife Marina has decided she needs some time out of their marriage to think about the future and Sid is devastated. But then Gary Bremner, an ex-jockey trainer, calls him to ask for his help – he is being threatened by someone in the racing world and he needs a friend he can trust. However, the very next morning, Gary’s stable yard is torched, horses killed, and Gary has disappeared.
Determined to uncover the truth and to help his friend, Sid starts to investigate. He soon finds himself embroiled in a conspiracy that cuts to the very heart of the integrity of British horse racing, and then danger comes closer to home than ever.
Can Sid get to the bottom of what’s going on before he too becomes a victim, while, at the same time, saving his marriage?

Miles Pussett is a former steeplechase jockey. Now he gets his adrenaline rush from riding down the Cresta Run, a three-quarter-mile Swiss ice chute, head first, reaching speeds of up to eighty miles per hour.
Finding himself in St Moritz during the same weekend as White Turf, when high-class horseracing takes place on the frozen lake, he gets talked into helping out with the horses. It is against his better judgement. Seven years before, Miles left horseracing behind and swore he would never return.
When he discovers something suspicious is going on in the races, something that may have a profound impact on his future life, Miles begins a search for answers. But someone is adamant to stop him - and they'll go to any lengths to do it . . .

It is said that everyone over a certain age can remember distinctly what they were doing when they heard that President Kennedy had been assassinated, or that Princess Diana had been killed in a Paris car crash, but I, for one, could recall all too clearly where I was standing when a policeman told me that my wife had been murdered. Bill Russell is acting as a…

The stakes are higher than ever in Damage, the fourth solo novel from Top Ten bestseller Felix Francis.
Jeff Hinkley, undercover investigator for the British Horseracing Authority, is looking into the shady activities of a racehorse trainer. But as he's tailing his quarry through the Cheltenham Racing Festival, the last thing he expects to witness is a gruesome murder. Could it have something to do with the reason the trainer was banned in the first place - the administration of illegal drugs to his horses?
Days later, it's discovered that many more horses test positive for prohibited stimulants, a scandal that could throw horse-racing into disrepute. It's no surprise when the BHA receives a demand - pay up or face the consequences. In order to limit the damage to the sport, it's critical that Jeff find the perpetrator . . . but he'll soon learn he's up against someone who will stop at nothing to prevail . . .

Во время скачек «Гранд нэшнл» в Эйнтри на глазах у сотен людей неизвестный убивает Геба Ковака, финансового консультанта фирмы «Лайял энд Блэк», человека на первый взгляд совершенно законопослушного и в криминальных историях не замешанного. Ник Фокстон, бывший жокей, друг и коллега Ковака, а также по несчастливой случайности прямой свидетель преступления, просто не…

Dick Francis’s beloved investigator Sid Halley returns in the riveting new mystery by New York Times–bestselling author Felix Francis.

Six years ago, investigator Sid Halley retired for good. He’d been harassed, beaten, shot, even lost a hand to his investigating business, and enough was enough. For the sake of his wife and new daughter he gave up that life of danger and uncertainty, and he thought nothing would ever lure him back into the game.

He thought wrong. Sir Richard Stewart, chairman of the racing authority, begs Sid to investigate a series of dodgy races. Sid adamantly refuses, but the following day, Sir Richard is found dead under suspicious circumstances. And then a man with an Irish accent contacts Sid, telling him to deliver a whitewashed report about the suspected race-fixing . . . or else.

At first Sid ignores these warnings, knowing that once he submits to this criminal bully, he will forever be under his control. But as the intimidation tactics escalate—and Sid’s own family comes under threat—Sid realizes he must meet his enemy head-on . . . or he might pay the ultimate price for his refusal.

Вернувшись с войны в Афганистане, Том Форсит обнаруживает, что дела у его матери, тренера скаковых лошадей Джозефин Каури идут не так блестяще, как хочет показать эта несгибаемая и волевая женщина. Она сама и ее предприятие становятся объектом наглого и циничного шантажа. Так что новая жизнь для Тома, еще в недавнем прошлом профессионального военного, а теперь…

Произведения стали более динамичными благодаря тому, что отвлекающие от сюжетной линии подробности были опущены. Однако все важные события и характеры персонажей остались без изменений. Книги захватывают с самых первых страниц. Стремительное движение по сюжетной линии и динамика событий будут приковывать ваше внимание на протяжении всего произведения.

When race caller and television presenter Mark Shillingford calls a race in which his twin sister, Clare, an accomplished jockey, comes in second when she could have won, he believes the worst: that she deliberately lost, and the race was fixed.

When Mark confronts Clare with his suspicions, she storms off—and it’s the last time Mark sees her alive. Hours later, Clare jumps to her death from the balcony of a London hotel. Devastated and guilt-ridden over her death, Mark goes in search of answers. Why would Clare throw a race? What led her to take her own life?

Or was it not suicide at all?

ТИХАЯ ГАВАНЬ, Николас Спаркс Кэти пытается вырваться из плена собственного прошлого и хочет только одного — чтобы ее оставили в покое. Но жизнь маленького городка Саутпорт в Северной Каролине незаметно затягивает ее: она заводит дружбу с соседкой и начинает встречаться с добрым и отзывчивым владельцем магазина. Сумеет ли она по-настоящему обжиться здесь, или же…