The Eddie Malloy series

Eddie Malloy has beaten the odds by winning back his riding licence, and is trying to get his career on track once more. Just when things look like they are turning around for him, he finds himself in the gunsights of a cunning killer who is maiming and murdering racing personalities with a zeal and purpose which terrifies the racing world and mystifies the police. Eddie is convinced the killer has a pre-planned hit list for these ritual slayings, and when he discovers he is high on that list, Eddie realizes that nobody can figure out the murderer's motive. Unless Eddie himself can unravel the deadly clues in time, he knows he will die. It's time for Eddie Malloy to become the hunter not the hunted. If you enjoy trying to solve mysteries, you will find this a very cleverly plotted book which will challenge your logic as it spurs you along at a fast pace. Written by ex-top jockey and BBC commentator Richard Pitman and racing journalist Joe McNally, Hunted is the second of the Eddie Malloy series. Eddie features in five of Richard and Joe's novels. First published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1994, this 2012 edition has been rewritten and moves along at an even faster clip.

From Champion Jockey at 22 to down-and-out at 27, Eddie Malloy is bitter and desolate, reduced to living in an ancient caravan working for a tyrannical horse dealer. Estranged from his family and the sport he loves, Eddie cannot forget or forgive the racing authorities for believing false allegations of horse doping against him which robbed him of his riding licence. With another miserable Christmas looming, Eddie's discovery of murder victim Danny Gordon in the racing capital of Newmarket offers him a perilous path to the resurrection of his career. He must balance that ultimate reward against the risk of becoming a victim of Gordon's ruthless killers. Racing's own police are too afraid to take on these killers; for them Eddie Malloy is dispensable. They also know he can be tough and ruthless when fighting for what he believes in. Eddie's alone in the world now, if he dies trying to get his life back, who will care? Written by ex-top jockey and BBC commentator Richard Pitman and racing journalist Joe McNally, Warned Off is the first in the series of seven mystery crime thrillers by the duo. Warned Off sees the debut of Eddie Malloy, who features in six more of Richard and Joe's novels. The book has been rewritten and moves along at an even faster pace now. We hope you enjoy Warned Off which also contains an excerpt from book two in the Eddie Malloy series, Hunted. Richard and Joe

Eddie Malloy looks set to get a big break at last. Multi-millionaire businessman, Broga Cates, has hired Eddie to ride his horses and all looks set fair for Eddie's attempt to reclaim his Champion Jockey title. But two of Eddie's close jockey-friends are cut down within days of each other. One is found dead in a horsebox at his daughter's birthday party; another is paralysed in a road accident. Both families need Eddie's help, but one evil and powerful man wants Eddie to stay out of it. From the country racetracks of England to a beautiful woman in Barbados, Eddie journeys to  try and find what lies behind the fate of his friends. Somebody wants him dead. Others want him for different things and Eddie finds himself fighting once more to win justice for his friends.

A crazy technology genius from Boston is hammering the English bookies by manipulating race results. This American Robin Hood secretly pays the innocent people who lose out through his scheme. His big mistake is to scam Eddie Malloy. Eddie's already in trouble. Trainer Matt Nash and racehorse owner, the beautiful young heiress, Rebecca Bow, have got involved with the Triads and need Eddie's help and protection. While Eddie is trying to track down the American, and keep his friends safe from the violent Chinese gangsters, a 12 year-old boy on a pony is searching the snowbound English Lake District for his father. The result of that search is to have a devastating effect on Eddie's life. From smoky London Casinos, and the country racetracks of England, to a New York's Wall Street, Eddie works to unravel multiple mysteries and to finally find love

A trio of apparent suicides of racing people in the beautiful Lambourn valley in south west England baffles Eddie Malloy. Eddie refuses to accept the police assumption that each death, accompanied by a suicide note, suggests no crime has been committed. One of the dead saved Eddie's life, when Eddie was just 19. Fourteen years' later, Eddie knows he cannot rest until he discovers the truth behind the death of his friend. Eddie enlists the help of a woman "with a brain the size of the moon", Maven Judge, a solitary maverick living on a remote Welsh clifftop above Hell's Mouth bay. Eddie believes he is up against a criminal genius. But he is betting that his determination, and the intellect of Maven Judge, can unravel the strangest mystery he has faced.

Eddie owes a big favour to Maven Judge, the solitary software genius who helped him out in a previous case. He also owes time to healing family wounds with nephew Kim and sister Marie. And Eddie's old friend Mac is suddenly sacked from his job in racing security. He too needs Eddie's help. Eddie sees this as the summer of repayment, but beautiful redhead Nina Raine has plans to kill Eddie's career for good unless he does what she wants. Crooked bookie Jordan Ivory also wants Eddie out of the way so that his race-fixing scheme will carry on earning millions. The time has come for Eddie to find out if dependence on his own courage and sense of justice is enough to keep him, and those he loves safe. Is the bravery and willpower of one man enough to defeat the evil plans of many?

WARNING: THIS BOOK WAS PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED UNDER THE TITLE JOSEPH'S MANSIONS FEATURING FRANKIE HOULIHAN. THE BOOK HAS BEEN COMPLETELY REWRITTEN IN LATE 2016 TO WRITE FRANKIE OUT AND BRING EDDIE IN TO MAKE THIS BOOK 9 IN THE EDDIE MALLOY SERIES.  A Dublin gangster hires a young English scientist and plans to plunder the world of racing with an ingenious idea. Trip Healy, a handsome vet in his thirties must become a criminal to prepare for his impending death. 19-year-old Jess Wainwright sees from the back of a runaway horse that her dreams and her life are endangered. And Danny Deever, a bitter ex-jockey delights in harming the innocent. Can Eddie Malloy defeat this cast of deranged and dangerous men and keep his friends alive? Another searing mystery thriller in this well established and much loved series.

A steeplechase at Bangor races...after a mile, a horse suddenly goes wild and smashes through a fence leaving his jockey, Eddie Malloy, comatose. This is no freak accident. In the following weeks, more horses go wild during races. Fortunes are won and lost on them, and the only consistent clue is that Eddie Malloy rides in every race where the horses hit blind panic. The racing authorities want Eddie grounded. The police want to use Eddie to nail an 'uncatchable' crime lord. Ben and Alice Searcey want Eddie's help and protection against a vicious ring of girl traffickers. And the sexy 'Gypsy Princess', Primarolo Romanic needs Eddie to help hold together her relationship with handsome two-timing trainer, Dil Grant. Eddie has never faced so many challenges. In this long, intense and fast-moving story, can he keep everyone he cares for alive and unharmed? Or has his luck finally run out along with the wild horses?

Ex-jockey Eddie Malloy has been forced out of racing by the big hitter Robert Cottrill. Eddie's hunger for risk and adventure takes him to Everest, where his heroics in the teeth of a savage storm win him the chance to crash his way back into the world of British racing and settle some long-festering sores. Eddie's billionaire boss Vaughn Keelor has big plans and Eddie is under pressure to deliver them. He can't face failure in racing yet again. But somebody is determined to force him out for good, somebody who is ready to kill him. NB This is the second edition, a rewrite of the original after Richard's retirement. This rewrite now brings all of the existing Eddie Malloy books into logical line, and allows for new stories in future.

The third book in the Eddie Malloy series, following Warned Off and Hunted, Blood Ties is another fast-moving mystery set in the world of UK horse racing. The plot is fresh and intriguing and will challenge mystery fans who enjoy piecing together the clues. Troubled jockey Eddie Malloy invests everything he has to become a partner in a small thoroughbred stud. One morning a blackmailer calls threatening to make public that Malloy's stud has an infertile stallion and is cheating breeders. Malloy discovers that his partner in the stud, Martin Corish, has disappeared, leaving behind a pregnant young groom and a vengeful wife. Corish was Eddie's childhood hero, but Eddie only really gets to know Martin Corish when the chips are down and he faces threats and violence. Eddie's search for the blackmailer leads him through an ever-widening web of deceit, envy, murder and the discovery that his parents, long estranged from him, might be involved. Does he let the criminals go, or must he surrender a family secret that will kill his father?