Even Money

I wanted to love this. What's not to love about a new Dick Francis, right? But I'm sad to say I only liked it. Our typical Dick Francis hero is there with an interesting profession, family problems, a mystery to puzzle through, and villains to defeat. But for some reason the story never completely p......more

"Even Money", yet another Francis racehorse action mystery, may refer to balancing bets for wins and losses to come out ahead. In a dark deserted Ascot car park, third generation bookie Ned is accosted by a stranger who claims to be his long-lost father from Australia, warns him of danger, and dies......more

Not good. I don't think Felix quite gets it. He has a heavier hand than his father in the earlier books. The characters are not as delightfully genteel and the educational content (here about betting, id-ing horses, bi-polar disorder, electronics and MORE) is way over done. The plot is also over don......more

I think it's been several years since the last time I read Dick Francis. His world of horse racing is so very different than almost anything else I read that it is pure escapism. This is more thriller than mystery. There were a few times when the first person narrator did what I thought was stupid o......more