This was my company on the blanket at Lollapalooza on Sunday. Dick Francis is like comfort food to me. The mac’n’cheese of mysteries. The tomato soup in my readin’ week. I can (and have) read some of these over and over.

He rarely repeats a character, but two books of his that I have read a zillion times over are “Bolt” and “Break In” both featuring Kit Fielding. If you like mysteries, and you like horses, and jockeys, and racing, and the occasional princess, then high thee to a bookstore. You won’t be disappointed.