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Slay Ride (Hardcover)

by Dick Francis (Author)
3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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"One of the greatest living suspense writers."
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British investigator David Cleveland has come to Oslo to investigate a champion jockey's disappearance right before the National, a race he was certain to win. But he's almost drowned in a fjord for his troubles. David knows accident and coincidence couldn't begin to explain this little mishap or the oncoming gruesome string of deaths that David Cleveland would find was meant to include his own....


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Previously published in mass market by Pocket Books.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Sub Par for Francis, Jan 16 2002
By Colin Willey (Ottawa, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Slay Ride (Paperback)
It had been a while since I had read anything from Dick Francis and I was in the mood for a mystery and saw Slay Ride at a used bookstore for $2.00. Let's just say it's a good thing that I didn't pay any more.
The bulk of the murder-mystery story takes place in Norway. After main character, David Cleveland is sent to investigate a death is Oslo; he is nearly killed in a boating mishap.
The book takes some predicable turns until the killer is flushed out.
By the end of the novel, I was quite bored and the end left me unfulfilled.
I am used to a better quality novel from Dick!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good story and good characters, Jun 20 2001
By Martha E. Nelson (Watertown, Wisconsin) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Slay Ride (Paperback)
I listened to this book on tape, and initially I had to accustom myself to the Norwegian setting and accents. Once I had myself acclimated, I enjoyed it a great deal, although I will say that I "figured it out" faster than I do some mysteries.

What I liked, I think, was the slightly unique setting and the things about Northern European horse racing that I had not know before. I also thought the chracters were interesting and had some depth that is sometimes missing in Francis' books. There are some characters in this one that I have wondered about as you would with real people--what made them turn out this way? and what is going to happen to them afterwords?

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