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Long Odds: Book 2 of The Hartsmere Mysteries

By: Cleo Browning
Narrated by: Virginia Ferguson
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Summary
 A murdered bookmaker. A horse that isn't what its papers claim. At the Newmarket July Meeting, the deadliest fraud is the one written in chalk...Newmarket, 1888. When a moderate handicapper named Dovetail wins the feature race by two clear lengths at odds that collapsed from twelve-to-one to nine-to-two, the crowd calls it improvement. Nell Ashmore calls it a lie. The horse moves wrong, recovers too fast, and runs with the power of an animal bred for far better company. Her body knows the truth before her mind will sign the paper: this is not the same horse.Hours later, the bookmaker Solomon Crabbe — the one man in the ring who watched the horse instead of the money — is found strangled in the betting enclosure, a gentleman's leather rein around his throat and his notebook missing.A ringer, a reckoning, and a price worth killing forThe police see a robbery. Nell sees a staging. With Inspector Thomas Kell, she reads the case the only way she knows how: from the horse outward. The teeth say five, not four. A dyed sock washes clean in the rain. The genuine Dovetail stands alive in a paddock fourteen miles away, and the chalk on the boards tells the story of money that knew the result before the flag ever fell.But the closer Nell follows the fraud toward the gentleman who profited from it, the closer it leads to a buried truth about her own family — and the founding wrong that built Hartsmere on a horse that was never honestly bought.To get justice for a murdered man whose only crime was reading true, Nell must out-handicap a mastermind who has already proven that a human life is just another number on the board.Why readers love The Hartsmere Mysteries:A heroine who reads form, not faces: Nell Ashmore solves crimes with horsemanship, dentition, and the cold arithmetic of the betting ring — logic over intuition, every time.The authentic Victorian turf.©2026 Robert Walker (P)2026 Robert Walker
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