41. Saddled With Trouble (Horse Lover's Mystery, 1) - Michele Scott, Berkley Prime Crime Mystery, December 2006, ISBN: 0425212904, 259p.
Featuring: Michaela Bancroft
Synopsis:
Trainer Michaela Bancroft has worked hard to make it in the man's world of showing and breeding quearter horses. After her husband leaves her for a younger woman, she's left with a broken heart and mounting debts. The death strikes and Michaela is suddenly...
SADDLED WITH TROUBLE
Horse trainer Michaela Bancroft's husband is divorcing her for a twenty-two-year-old beauty queen. Stunned, Michaela is trying to rein in her life when she finds her Uncle Lou murdered in his prize stallion's stall. As she fends off debt collectors – and her ex-husband’s renewed interest in her – Michaela begins to suspect that the killer may be someone close to her. When she’s neatly run off the road the night after her uncle’s funeral, Michaela is convinced she’s on the fast track to becoming the next victim…
Comments:
A nice mystery. First in the series and I'm looking forward to reading more. I'm not sure I think the synopsis above (taken from the back cover) is quite right. Or rather, it puts to much emphasis on Michaela's "heartbreak." If I remember correctly (I've read 6 books since this), she initiated the divorce.
Jo
