The Jockey Club’s Guide to Discreet Murder and Other Sporting Misfortunes

A Cozy Regency Mystery of Love and Murder

By: Marisa Paxon

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

As the narrator of this novel, I have, against my better judgement, already carried you through every sly wager, every sanctimonious club rule, and one extremely inconvenient death, and now they insist I must also stand here and hawk the whole ordeal like a street vendor with a conscience. Fine. Hold onto your gloves.

Newmarket is full of men who think honour is something you pin to a cravat, right up until the Prince’s Cup favourite collapses in the straw with foam at his mouth and nobody can agree whether it counts as murder because the victim had four legs. Miss Beatrice Linton is only here to keep her uncle’s bookmaking ledger tidy and her own notorious surname quieter than it deserves, but figures have a way of developing opinions. When her columns begin to whisper a pattern, the Jockey Club’s most stubborn steward, Sir Rowan Delacourt, turns up like a moral warning in human form, all steel eyes, clipped restraint, and rules sharp enough to cut.

He wants discretion. She wants accuracy. Unfortunately for everyone who prefers their vices unexamined, those two desires do not coexist peacefully when someone is sending “liniment” that bites like poison, laying wagers through intermediaries, and quietly trying to tilt the entire Meeting without being caught doing it. If Beatrice fails, she does not merely lose a race, she risks becoming the convenient scapegoat the turf has been itching to blame all along, while the real culprit keeps experimenting with lives, reputations, and anything else that can be ruined without drawing blood on a gentleman’s cuff.

Perfect for readers who like sharp, clue-rich Regency sleuthing in a high society sporting world, dry banter, secret patterns hiding in plain sight, and a hero who is attracted to competence almost as much as he is offended by it.

Expect a satisfying, logical mystery with non-gory danger, plus a closed door, slow burn romance with an HFN, all wrapped up as a complete stand alone case in the Regency: Corpses & Courtship Club world. Now, if you are done hovering at the rail, click Look Inside and let us see whether your nerves can keep pace with your curiosity.