Fans of horse racing and everyone else will find this tale of love, lust, greed, and family ties an enjoyable ride. After another body turns up, it's game on for Fia and Calixto Coyune, another operative, who's posing as her new paramour. Sasscer Hill, who was involved in horse racing as an amateur jockey and racehorse breeder for most of her life, sets her suspense and mystery novels against a background of horse racing, and the people and horses in the industry who dig deep into their hearts to find the courage and will to win against all odds. Title: Full mortality : a Nikki Latrelle racing mystery Author: Sasscer Hill Publisher: Rockville, MD : Wildside Press, ©2010. When aspiring jockey Stevie Davis is given his big break, but runs afoul of Pizzuti and his business partners, Fia learns that Stevie and his younger sister have been threatened. Rumored to have a penchant for doping horses and blackmailing jockeys, Pizzuti is also alleged to have ties to organized crime. This inexplicable tragedy adds further urgency to her investigation of Pizzuti. An apprentice jockey who had just arrived from South America apparently shot himself dead. One foggy morning near a training track, Fia hears a gunshot. Hill's fast-paced sequel to 2017's Flamingo Road takes ex-cop Fia McKee, now working for the Thoroughbred Racing Protective Bureau, to New York's legendary Saratoga Race Course, where she goes undercover as a stable hand to check out trainer Marzio "Mars" Pizzuti.
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