Book description
When racehorse trainer Delbert "Shorty" Rogers is found
dead in a stall at Caledonia Downs, Homicide Detective Campbell Young
is drawn into the investigation. Add to the mix a lottery winner, an
Internet mogul, a reclusive land baron, his voluptuous helpmate and
twin bodyguards, an eccentric environmentalist, a cast of backstretch
characters reminiscent of Damon Runyon, and the murder of a
thoroughbred racehorse named Download, and the scene is set. The
possibility that the deaths of Rogers and Download are unrelated makes
Young's task even more difficult. With the assistance of washed-up
racetrack journalist Priam Harvey, Young sets out to solve the
mysteries and bring the guilty to justice.
J. D. Carpenter's first Campbell Young novel, The Devil in
Me, was nominated for an Arthur Ellis Award and appeared on the
Globe & Mail's bestseller list. The second, Bright's Kill,
was published in 2005 to critical acclaim. Carpenter currently lives
in Prince Edward County, Ontario.
