Joe McNally
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Joe McNally

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Welcome,

Thanks for looking in. Most of my writing was done in the 1990s and early in the Noughties. I wrote ten novels in that period, seven of them with my friend and collaborator Richard Pitman, a top National Hunt jockey of the 1960s and 1970s.

I broke from horse racing novels in 2026 to write a one-off novel A Trail Of Tartan Blood, based in my home village of New Stevenston, about 10 miles southeast of Glasgow.

I am unsure if I will add any more novels to the Eddie Malloy Series. If I get a promising idea I will, but I don't want to continue the series just for the sake of doing so. Readers deserve nothing but a good tale that has the full commitment of the author.


All Eddie Malloy books can be read as stand-alone stories, so you can join the series at any point. Some reviewers feel it's been a benefit to read them in the order they were written:

Warned Off
Hunted
Blood Ties
Running Scared
The Third Degree
Dead Ringer
Aim High
Wild Horses
For Your Sins
Bet Your Life

Eddie tells the story in the first person in those first four books. We feel this gives added insight for the reader who hears at first hand what it is like to ride half a ton of highly charged muscle and bone over tough fences in the most competitive country in the world for steeplechasing.

Richard was a top jockey in the 1970s, winning some of the most famous races and suffering defeat in the shadow of the post in what many believe was the greatest Grand National ever run - 1973. In that race, Richard rode the huge black Australian horse, Crisp, carrying a leg-buckling weight over those 30 majestic fences only to be caught, after leading throughout, by the greatest Grand National horse of them all, Red Rum. (In YouTube, type "Horse Racing 1973 Grand National" to see the finish)

Dick Francis fans will find Eddie's world a familiar place, and many reviewers have mentioned this. We did not set out to copy Dick Francis. Richard knew the great man very well. Joe grew up reading Dick's books again and again so it's inevitable that some of the Francis style will have crept in. But Eddie Malloy is a much less gentle character than most of the DF heroes. Eddie's hatred of injustice stems from his experiences as a child and as a budding jockey. He does stupid things in anger, incapable of looking at himself with any objectivity.

As for us authors, we're based in the UK where our novels are set. Richard, who you see in the picture above, lives in the south of England close to the famous racing village of Lambourn, which features so strongly in our stories. Joe lives in his native Scotland. We first met when we worked for racing broadcaster SiS, although Joe had been an avid teenage follower of Richard's riding career.

If you've read any of our books - thank you. The money from sales helps, of course, but we're delighted that more people are following the lives of our characters; that's why we write. If you haven't yet read one, please do. We hope you'll enjoy them - Warned Off alone has had close to 100,000 downloads.

ALERT: Every reader has his or her own idea of what is 'offensive'. There is some cursing in some of our books, all of it, we believe, in character and none of it gratuitous. We don't do sex; mainly because neither of us can write it worth a damn! There are some male/female scenes where sex is 'in the air' but there is nothing in any way explicit.

There is violence in most of our books, most of it perpetrated by 'imaginative' criminals, none of it, we hope, off-putting, although it is mentioned in reviews from time to time. That's something we'll bear in mind for future stories.

On the right of this page you'll see some short video clips, which give some vivid flavour to Eddie's world.

Best wishes
Joe McNally
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