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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorDick Francis's Refusal
Felix Francis · 371 pages
Sir Richard Stewart, chairman of the racing authority, begs retired private investigator Sid Halley to investigate a series of dodgy races. Sid adamantly refuses, but the following day, Sir Richard is found dead under suspicious circumstances. "Dick Francis's beloved investigator Sid Halley returns in the riveting new mystery by New York Times-bestselling author Felix Francis. Six years ago, inve
Crossfire
Dick Francis, Felix Francis · 354 pages
Tom Forsyth returns to his childhood home after being badly wounded in Afghanistan. Never having seen eye to eye with his racehorse trainer mother, Tom doesn't expect a hero's welcome, but even he's not prepared for the reception that awaits him.
Deal Breaker
Harlan Coben · 372 pages
1st Myron Bolitar Novel EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE and ANTHONY AWARD WINNER! Sports agent Myron Bolitar lands Christian Steele, the client of a lifetime. There’s just one little problem…
At Risk
Kit Ehrman · 298 pages
"Stubbornness has its price. So does pride. And Stephen cline will pay heavily for both when he drops out of college against his father's wishes and lands a job as barn manager at Foxdale Farm, one of Maryland's premiere equestrain facilities. Though Steve's just twenty-one, years of solitude and summers at a dude ranch have seasoned himlike a veteran."--Jacket.
The Professional
Robert B. Parker · 289 pages
A knock on Spenser's office door can only mean one thing: a new case. This time the visitor is a local lawyer with an interesting story. Elizabeth Shaw specializes in wills and trusts at the Boston law firm of Shaw & Cartwright, and over the years she's developed a friendship with wives of very wealthy men. However, these rich wives have a mutual secret: they've all had an affair with a man named
Airs Above the Ground
Mary Stewart · 256 pages
Lovely Vanessa March, two years married and very much in love, did not think it was a strange for her husband to take a business trip to Stockholm. What was strange was the silence that followed. She never thought to look for her missing husband in Vienna -- until she saw him in a newsreel shot there at the scene of a deadly fire. Then she caught a glimpse of him in a newsreel shot of a crowd near
Racing Savannah
Miranda Kenneally · 291 pages
Working at a fancy farm that trains horses for the Kentucky Derby, Savannah tries to deflect the attention of the owner's son as she pursues her dream of becoming a jockey. Working at a fancy farm that trains horses for the Kentucky Derby, Savannah tries to deflect the attention of the owner's son as she pursues her dream of becoming a jockey. The plot contains minor profanity and sexual situatio
Time to Murder and Create
Lawrence Block · 190 pages
The Quick Red Fox
John D. MacDonald · 209 pages
*The Quick Red Fox* is a gripping study in blackmail. The victim: gorgeous Lysa Dean, whose name on a picture means big box-office money -- but whose face in the set of house-party pictures somebody mails to her means the end of her career. Blackmail is always an ugly business, but Travis McGee is particularly concerned about the note with the photographs, which sounds like the spewings of a sick,
Say Nothing
Brad Parks · 440 pages
When their children are abducted by a man who blackmails them to follow instructions at the risk of the children's lives, a judge and his wife endure a terrorizing ordeal of no-holds-barred deceit and bond-breaking suspicions.
The Art of Racing in the Rain
Garth Stein · 321 pages
Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: a philosopher with a nearly human soul (and an obsession with opposable thumbs), he has educated himself by watching television extensively, and by listening very closely to the words of his master, Denny Swift, an up-and-coming race car driver.Through Denny, Enzo has gained tremendous insight into the human condition, and he sees that life, like racing,
The Racketeer
John Grisham · 370 pages
When a federal judge and his secretary fail to appear for a scheduled trial and panicked clerks call for an FBI investigation, a harrowing murder case ensues and culminates in the imprisonment of a lawyer who imparts the story of who killed the judge and why. "... El cadáver del juez fue hallado en su cabaña a la orilla de un lago. La entrada no había sido forzada. Lo único que encontraron fuer
The Black Stallion's Courage
Walter Farley · 231 pages
In order to raise money to rebuild a one-hundred-thousand-dollar barn, destroyed by fire, Alec returns to racing the Black.
Silent Harmony
Michele Scott · 238 pages
"Small town seventeen-year-old Vivienne Taylor is a talented equestrian with Olympic dreams and a little something extra going on--she is also an "equine empath," someone who has the ability to read horses' minds and moods. When she receives a full scholarship to attend Fairmont Riding Academy, a prep school with a famous riding program, she struggles with homesickness, hazing by the school's snoo
Absolute Power
David Baldacci · 528 pages
In a heavily guarded mansion in a posh Virginia suburb, a man and a woman are about to embark on a night of passion, trapping an unsuspecting burglar behind a secret wall. Then the lovemaking turns deadly, and the witness is running into the night. Because what he has just seen is a brutal slaying involving the president of the United States. Luther Whitney is the career break-in artist who’s i
Brat Farrar
Josephine Tey · 270 pages
In this tale of mystery and suspense, a stranger enters the inner sanctum of the Ashby family posing as Patrick Ashby, the heir to the family's sizable fortune. The stranger, Brat Farrar, has been carefully coached on Patrick's mannerism's, appearance, and every significant detail of Patrick's early life, up to his thirteenth year when he disappeared and was thought to have drowned himself. It see
Aurora Floyd
Mary Elizabeth Braddon · 198 pages
Aurora Floyd, motherless since infancy and indulged by her father, returns from finishing school in Paris. Reticent about her past Aurora nevertheless inspires the love of two men with her beauty and vivacity. When her choice is made, it is not long before she must face the consequences of her actions, and risk the exposure of her secret. Deceit, blackmail, even violence disturb the usually tranqu
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson · 400 pages
Everyone is talking about A Good Girl's Guide to Murder! With shades of Serial and Making a Murderer this is the story about an investigation turned obsession, full of twists and turns and with an ending you'll never expect. Everyone in Fairview knows the story. Pretty and popular high school senior Andie Bell was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh, who then killed himself. It was all anyo
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
Becky Albertalli · 336 pages
Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Now Simon is actually being blackmailed: if he doesn’t play wingman for class clown Martin, his sexual identity will become everyone’s business. Worse, the privacy of Blue, the pen name of the bo
Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Laura Hillenbrand · 453 pages
Retraces the journey of Seabiscuit, a horse with crooked legs and a pathetic tail that made racing history in 1938, thanks to the efforts of a trainer, owner, and jockey who transformed a bottom-level racehorse into a legend.
The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler · 220 pages
Philip Marlowe, a private eye who operates in Los Angeles's seamy underside during the 1930s, takes on his first case, which involves a paralyzed California millionaire, two psychotic daughters, blackmail, and murder