Rank Outsiders.: A great racing thriller!

Rank Outsiders has been re-edited.Praise for Charlie De Luca.'He is fast becoming my favourite author.''Enjoyable books that are really well plotted and keep you guessing.''Satisfying reads, great plots.'Someone seems determined to stop a racehorse from running. A social worker and jockey are thrown together to find out why. They uncover a complex plot where the stakes are much higher than they ever thought and danger lurks in every corner...Poppy Ford is a young social worker who works with children in care. She takes over a new case, a young man, called Kyle Devlin, who works in a local racing yard. When Kyle becomes implicated in nobbling one of the horses in his care, she finds herself unwittingly drawn into playing detective with the assistance of jockey, Tristan Davies. However, Poppy has her own mystery to solve. Several girls are going missing from care on a regular basis. They are tight lipped about their whereabouts but Poppy suspects they are being groomed and lured into a sinister underworld. With nobody taking either of their concerns seriously, Poppy and Tristan decide to help each other. Their unusual collaboration reveals far more than they could ever have suspected. Thrilling and fast paced, this novel will appeal to lovers of crime novels but especially those involving horse racing from the author of The Gift Horse, Twelve in the Sixth, Making Allowances and Hoodwinked.