By Laura Crum
Horse vet Gail McCarthy's lifestyles turns stranger than fiction whilst her previous boyfriend, Lonny Peterson, is arrested for murder-by none except Gail's early life pal, Bret Boncantini, now a sheriff's deputy in a Sierra foothills city. Lonny is accused of the homicide of 2 neighborhood farm animals auctioneers, one his female friend and the opposite her brother. either Gail and Bret are certain of Lonny's innocence, and choose to enquire. As they start to show up facts and extra murders ensue, the path results in Gail's domestic at the primary California coast. And as Gail closes in at the resolution, the ruthless assassin may well make a decision she should be eradicated, too. Going, long past positive factors all of the parts that Laura Crum is understood for: high quality writing approximately attractive landscapes and actual horse lore, in addition to an exhilarating secret.
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That’s where Burt and Pistol are buried. They were two horses Lonny had back when he lived on the coast, near us. Burt was the horse that taught me how to rope. And Pistol was a great horse, too. Lonny buried them here when they died. ” “We buried Toby and Roey and Baxter at home,” Mac said. ” “Of course they will,” I said. “Their spirits will stay with us. ” Mac smiled. Somehow this notion was reassuring. I watched my little boy and wondered why life had chosen to deal us this particular hand.
In short, we stayed home on our own small farm and enjoyed it. A sudden metallic jingle startled me. The dog sitting on the passenger seat shook her head again, causing her tags to rattle musically. “Hi, Freckles,” I murmured, stretching out my hand to stroke her head. Freckles wagged her tail and flattened her ears; her light blue eyes gazed up at me in a mildly worried way. Last month she’d lost her longtime canine companion, my Queensland Heeler, Roey, and she was still moping. So was I, for that matter.
Once again, I wondered just who his girlfriend had been. He certainly hadn’t mentioned her to me. But then, Lonny had never been known for chatting about his personal affairs. Restless as a pinball bouncing from flipper to flipper, my brain leaped from thought to thought, collecting what I knew about Lonny and adding it up. A horse packer in these very mountains for many years, Lonny had eventually bought the pack station he worked for and grown rich enough to retire. Back when I’d met him he’d been living on the California coast and was recently separated from his wife.