Coley Killebrew Books In Order
- Stalking Horse (1994)
- Fire Horse (1995)
- Dark Horse (1996)
Non fiction
- Shoemaker (1988)
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Bill Shoemaker Books Overview
Stalking Horse
Straight from the Winner’s Circle, the greatest jockey of all time draws on his vast experience on and off the track to spin one of the most suspenseful mysteries of the year…
. Coley Killebrew was one of the best jockeys in the business until a race fixing scandal got him barred from the track. Now the man responsible for blackening his name, racing steward Raymond Starbuck, offers Coley a chance to redeem his reputation. All Coley has to do is investigate some underworld characters who are muscling in on a track in New Orleans, resist the irresistible redhead he loved and lost. Francie Dorn, and reckon with Lea, Starbuck’s leggy blonde daughter, who’s its adept at seducing men as she is at blowing them away…
. From the Paperback edition.
Fire Horse
Straight from the Winners Circle, the greatest jockey of all time draws on his vast experiences on and off the track to spin this suspenseful mystery starring jockey turned sleuth Coley Killebrew…
. It all starts when Johnny Rousseau, Coley’s partner in the Horses Neck Bar and Grill, finds himself saddled with a little problem named Paula Dresner. Gorgeous, rich, and spoiled rotten, Paula has Johnny twisted around her manicured little finger but he’s not too love blind to see that she’s gotten herself mixed up in some very suspicious business. Coley follows her trail, and it leads him to some peculiar racetrack photos, cut rate hoodlums making secret nocturnal shipments of high priced thoroughbreds…
and murder. As Coley begins to put the pieces together, things get hotter and hotter. It’s a fire that may consume some of the finest horses in the country. And Coley, too…
‘Shoemaker continues to show a broader streak of fun than Dick Francis, and a more pronounced taste for intrigue…
tossing off plot twists like thrown horseshoes.’ Kirkus Reviews’There’s plenty of action and excitement in his story, and it’s a wild ride.’ The Waterbury Republican
Dark Horse
World famous jockey turned mystery writer Bill Shoemaker is back in the winner’s circle with his newest racing mystery that begins and ends with the Triple Crown, the most famous and lucrative trio of races in the Thoroughbred business…
. At the Kentucky Derby, amateur sleuth Coley Killebrew discovers that prize race horses confiscated in drug busts are being undervalued and sold at auction. And no less a personage than Jim Carmody, a ruthless billionaire and arch conservative powermonger, is involved. Carmody blows his stack when his filly, For Cupid’s Sake, loses the Derby. But after an upset at the Preakness, Coley suspects that Carmody’s passion for racing is a cover for a far deeper, far darker game…
.’Bill Shoemaker follows Dick Francis from the racetrack to the bookshelves.’ Chicago Tribune