Voracious reader of all genres of fiction, leaning towards sci-fi, crime, mystery, thriller, and comedy.
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With his five ex-wives and the nine children between them, it's no great surprise that …
Almost like a locked room mystery combined with a Agatha Christie style mystery and reveal. Would have worked better if I didn't remember the villain from when I last read this book around 30 years ago :P
When Kit Fielding, champion steeplechase jockey, finds out that his chief patron, Princess Casilia, is …
Tovely tale with further character expansion and world building. Good twist at the end and a gripping finish.
Kit Fielding, proud heir to tradition and sporting hero to legions of fans, is drawn …
Great characters well fleshed out in this one. The plot was nice and twisty with a good wrapping up of everything nicely in the end.
Good character development, nice world building, and a great twisty plot.
Kidnapping is Andrew Douglas's business: they take them, he finds them. But it isn't so …
Three countries, three crimes, lots of character development. Different horse adjacent subject for Dick but as always he pulled it off in style.
This book spends more than half its length building a surprisingly large world full of well fleshed out characters. Once the mystery is revealed it pulls no punches and has some good twists and turns including a sharp one right at the end.
Young physicist Jonathan Derry is given some musical tapes by a friend. But the tapes …
Dick has managed to craft two stories over two different time lines that are intertwined in multiple ways. The stories are distinctive and connected at the same time, quite a neat trick. A pity the computer stuff didn't age well, Dick was not very good at predicting how personal computers would go over an 18 year period - but then again not many were able to do that.
Longtime jockey Philip Nore suspects that a racetrack photographer's fatal accident was really murder--and unravels …
Supremely twisty this one. Lots of interesting characters and a lovely ending.
Sid is such a great character and Dick really puts him through the wringer in this one. Lots of threads and twists and turns as usual.
Some good misdirection and lots of twists make this one a good read. Interesting to see the view of Russia from over 50 years ago!
Roland Britten was an amateur jockey, and an accountant by profession, who woke up one …
The descriptions of the captivity experienced by our hero are captivating and excruciating. Very good plot twists and of course all wrapped up nicely in the end.
Charles Todd, an artist specialising in horse paintings visits a friend in Australia and becomes …
Great spinning yarn across three countries including down under and the land of the long white cloud. The plot untangles nicely and the characters are fleshed out nicely. Good wrap of up the threads in the end.
The Toymaker
Lovely tale with many moving parts and magicians reveals at times. Excellent epilogue to really wrap things up nicely.
Mrs. Kerry Sanders, that very wealthy American lady, had engaged Jonah Dereham, ex-prize-winning jockey, to …
Very murky going early in this one trying to work out what was going on. Patience repaid in spades with all the excitement of the finish.
Mrs. Kerry Sanders, that very wealthy American lady, had engaged Jonah Dereham, ex-prize-winning jockey, to buy a steeplechaser for the …