** A delight from paddock to finish line." —Booklist (STARRED REVIEW) **
Brad Smith "rivals Elmore Leonard at his best" (Publishers Weekly). His latest novel, for fans of Richard Russo and Jane Smiley, is a terrific novel about a thirty-something single woman, the untried colt she inherits, a horse crazy little girl, and their band of misfits and has-beens who stick it to the establishment in the cutthroat world of...

"Theo Jennings, an auctioneer in Newmarket, England, has been climbing the ladder at the bloodstock sales company. He's planning on making his first ever multi-million sale with a yearling colt. When he finds the colt dead a few days after the auction, Theo is suspicious that there was foul play involved. When a person's body is discovered in the same stable a few days later, all fingers point to him. As his world turns upside down, Theo decides to...