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cbabe

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14. Dick Francis series

Sun Dec 18, 2022, 02:02 PM

Dec 2022

Detective against the world is almost an American archetype. Travis McGee and Robert Crais and McConnelly and James Lee Burke and Hillerman and onwards.

I’d forgotten what a great storyteller Francis was. Easy page turner prose but characters with depth and very twisty plots. Plus horses. And English weather.

Sadly library has incomplete collection so will be hunting titles at used book stores. Christmas gift to me.

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