"Pretty Fraudulent" and "Venomous": Two Janet Simpson Race Track Mysteries

By Sasscer Hill

This volume collects both of Sasscer Hill's Janet Simpson stories, featuring the amateur detective in the world of horse racing: PRETTY FRAUDULENT and VENEMOUS. Both stories appeared previously in separate volumes of the Chesapeake Crimes anthology series.

“If you miss the late Dick Francis’s racetrack thrillers, you’ll be intrigued by Sasscer Hill’s Racing From Death.” —The Washington Post, August 29, 2012

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wildside Press
• Release date: Jan 17, 2018
• ISBN: 9781479436347

Sasscer Hill

SASSCER HILL was an amateur steeplechase jockey, as well as a horse owner who bred, raised, and rode race horses for thirty years in Maryland. Her first published novel, Full Mortality, was nominated for both the Agatha and Macavity Best First Mystery Awards. Born in Washington, D.C., Hill earned a BA in English Literature from Franklin and Marshall College. She now lives with her husband, dog, and cat, in Aiken, SC., where she still enjoys horseback riding.

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