Bloodline - Softcover

Brian O'Connor

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ISBN 10: 1842234862 ISBN 13: 9781842234860

Publisher: Poolbeg Press Ltd, 2011

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Liam Dee’s world is turned upside down when a young foreign groom is murdered at Bailey McFarlane’s stables on the Curragh. Liam, a champion steeplechase jockey, is initially both witness and suspect. However, shrewd police detective Diarmuid Yeats takes a gamble on his innocence and enlists his help in the hunt for the killer.

This nightmare experience exacerbates the tensions in Liam’s life. He has been falling out of love with his job, his joy in racing relentlessly worn away by the struggle to keep the weight down on his six-foot frame. Is it time to quit? But McFarlane’s stables houses the brilliant Patrician, a potential Cheltenham Gold Cup winner, and Liam wants to be the jockey to get him first past the finish post in the race that matters most.

With emotions at pressure point, Liam falls in love with the exotic blonde Ukrainian stable girl, Lara, leaving him in an even more vulnerable position than before.

Then the killer strikes again and the race to the finish post is replaced by a race for survival . . . and there is no second place.

“A gripping murder story” - THE IRISH TIMES

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''A gripping murder story'' --The Irish Times

''O'Connor nails the horse racing thriller'' --The Evening Herald

About the Author:

Brian O Connor is Horse Racing Correspondent for The Irish Times. He is the author of two non fiction titles: ''Add A Zero'' (Hachette) and ''Kings of The Saddle'' (Aurum). He also had a short story, ''The Foal'', published in the charity collection ''The Big Book of Hope'' (Poolbeg).

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