CANTER WITH A KILLER

A woman’s dream of running a horse rescue is threatened when she becomes a murder suspect.

Mallory Martin gave up a stressful job and left her ambitious lawyer husband to turn an old farm near her hometown of Hillspring, Arkansas, into a horse rescue. Not everyone is pleased by her choice—especially her wealthy neighbor, Albert Cunningham, a grump who thinks her plan to add riding lessons to help keep the rescue afloat will downgrade the worth of his own property. So when Albert’s found dead, Mallory is devastated to discover that her longtime friend Sheriff Grady Sullivan has her high on his suspect list because a witness overheard Albert’s nasty phone call to her. Although Albert had a live-in girlfriend and several other people furious with him for excellent reasons, Mallory remains a suspect. Badly shaken, she hires a local lawyer who’s very supportive, as are her friends and the two teens who help her at the rescue. Even Albert’s son, Braydon, who’s still the chick magnet he was in high school, doesn’t think she killed his father. Fearing that she’ll end up in jail anyway if she doesn’t search for the killer herself, Mallory sets out to dig up more information on the organic farmer who accused Albert of pollution and the man whose landlocked property has put him at odds with Albert. One of her rescues saves her from the killer when her meddling gets too close to the truth.

Although the killer’s easy to spot, the charming denizens of the rescue hold your interest.