Tony Britton

Peter Cushing leads a team of research biologists who may be plotting to sell government secrets to a foreign power.

When Alessia Cenci, a young champion jockey, is kidnapped in Bologna, agent Andrew Douglas is sent to secure her release. For Andrew, the bungling of the Italian police is only the first in a chain of catastrophic events he cannot control.

From a New York Times–bestselling “master of crime fiction and equine thrills,” a jockey investigates the source of the rumors threatening his career (Newsday).
 
Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
 
Rob Finn is a talented young jockey on the rise, though nothing can help him rise above the...

From a New York Times bestseller, "a superb thriller . . . terrific" about a sportswriter who risks his own life investigating a suspicious death (San Francisco Chronicle). Dick Francis, Edgar-Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing. When reporter Bert Chekov falls to his death, his colleague James Tyrone is suspicious. Chekov's column had recently recommended some 'can't-lose' horses,...

To John Kendall it seemed a good idea to throw in his job in order to write a novel. Ten months later it seems an equally good idea to write the biography of Tremayne Vickers, a National Hunt racehorse trainer. By the end of the commission he will need to summon up all his survival skills.

Under the commission of an affluent American, ex-prize-winning jockey Jonah Dereham bids on a distinctive horse. But when a blow to the head immediately follows the auction, Dereham suspects another form of gambling might be at play.

From the author of Rebecca and The Birds: a classic thriller of shipwreck and murder, "rich in suspense and surprise" (New York Times Book Review). 
On a bitter November evening, young Mary Yellan journeys across the rainswept moors to Jamaica Inn in honor of her mother's dying request. When she arrives, the warning of the coachman begins to echo in her memory, for her aunt Patience cowers before...