Horse Mystery Fiction

Ponys? Pferde? Über Blumenwiesen galoppieren? Nein, danke. Lotte fährt lieber Skateboard. Bis sie einen Schnupperreitkurs gewinnt...

When Keeker and Plum take a family road trip to upstate New York, Keeker is sure it will be the best family vacation yet. (Plum, on the other hand, is not convinced!) Keeker is excited to splash in the neighborhood pond and ride ponies in the country with her cousins. What she doesn't know is that the nearby town of Sleepy Hollow holds a mystery that will make this a very memorable family vacation!

When old-school journalist William Carver is tipped off by a trusted Whitehall source that climate scientists have begun to go missing in suspicious circumstances, his gut instinct tells him to follow the story. It rapidly becomes clear that scientists, green campaigners and well-intentioned politicians are in the firing line; William Carver and his colleagues must move fast to find out who is behind the disappearances. They know the journalist's job is to speak truth to power - but first you must uncover that truth and this time it's buried deeper than ever.

Do you ever wonder what would happen if Hitler had won the Battle of Dunkirk? Colonel Sir Edward Ware is about to find out when Rommel pushes him off the French beach with all his troops and then beats him to Britain in 1940. The chase ends up in Coronado, California, land of palm trees, the rich and famous - and swastikas! It's all ahead for the Republican Convention of 1940 in Philadelphia where a dark horse candidate is being selected with plenty of Nazi involvement.

Something strange is happening to Mr. Fetlock's well-trained racehorses! Suddenly his swiftest steeds are running slowly. Sometimes they just sit down. Nine-year-old Harriet Bean is just the right size to pose as a jockey and unravel this bizarre mystery. But as Harriet sits next to Black Lightning, she has second thoughts about riding such a terrifying beast and exposing the diabolical League of Cheats.

After successfully - but bloodily - dismantling a complicated hostage situation at a bank in the suburbs of Stockholm, Detective Paul Hjelm is faced with the requisite investigation by Internal Affairs. It is a potentially career-ending inquiry, but he is plucked out of it by the National Criminal Police commissioner, who drops him into an elite task force of officers assembled from across the country to find an elusive killer with a sophisticated modus operandi and even more sophisticated tastes.

Red Fortunato's Starlight Club in Queens is back, still teeming with mobsters and their "business" each night. Trenchie, Tarzan, and Moose have returned. The Genovese family and others hang out amidst the grandeur of Red's renovated baby - the Grand Ballroom. Columbia Pictures studio head Larry Bernstein is being blackmailed.

Even on leave from the FBI, Ana can’t kick old habits: when she witnesses a drive-by shooting at an Italian restaurant in London, she helps the injured and gives testimony to the police. Still, it comes as a shock when, soon after, the Bureau contacts her—not because they want her to investigate the shooting, but because they want her to investigate the half sister she never knew she had, Cecilia, who lives in Siena and is married to Nicosa, a coffee mogul with some suspicious connections.

While on a stakeout to catch the cretin who’s stalking a client, Private Investigator Candice Shane finds a house on fire - at midnight. A pink tricycle in the yard prompts her hasty decision to break-in, saving a sleeping woman and her three children. Her ex-boyfriend, Sergeant Alex Delaney, thinks she’s insane to take on the woman as a client. But with the husband out of town during the incident, he’s the prime suspect, and Candice has a gut feeling he didn’t do it. Who would want a woman and three children dead?

One widow, one killer - who will die first? Gutsy, grieving Anna is determined to find who murdered her husband. Hampered by agonizing loneliness, her obsessive-compulsive mother, and her over-controlling father, she defies convention, and the law, to investigate on her own. When she runs up against Lee Adams, a handsome police detective who’s determined to save Anna from herself, she has to step up her rogue search for the killer, before time and dwindling leads run out.

The story of a very ugly cyber-stalker and bully that extorts men and women for her own perverse pleasure and profit to live a lavish lifestyle. She taunts, tortures, and torments her victims and ruins their lives. But when making such a huge number of real world enemies, eventually the hunter becomes the hunted. The victims may just turn the table in the oldest form of revenge known to mankind... murder!

Raymond Starbuck ruined star jockey Coley Killebrew's reputation—so why is Coley cutting a deal with him? When Killebrew was barred from the track after a race-fixing scandal, he also lost his irresistible girlfriend, Francie Dorn. Starbuck says that if Coley can keep some unsavory cronies from muscling in on the old Magnolia Park track, he'll give Coley $10,000—and Francie's address. Is this the opportunity he's been waiting for, or will Coley blow his chance with the arrival of Starbuck's leggy, blonde daughter Lea—a woman who's as skilled at seducing men as she is at blowing them away?

De acuerdo con la tradición familiar de los Higgins, toda primogénita es acosada por un caballo fantasmal durante su noviazgo. Esta historia ha sido considerada una leyenda, pero ahora por primera vez en siete generaciones, una mujer es la primogénita y su prometido ha terminado con un brazo roto después de un ataque por un asaltante misterioso. Se le pide entonces a Carnacki que investigar. Él y la mujer, Mary y su prometido, Beaumont, escuchan el golpeteo de cascos en la noche, pero no se ve ningún caballo.

Newly minted veterinarian Vivian Anderson knows and loves horses better than most. With an important horse show on the line and the search for a full-time vet job fast approaching, Vivian is fully occupied at her aunt’s Arabian horse ranch and her equine medical externship. Vivian’s world is abruptly shaken by a shocking murder that casts suspicion on the people she thought she knew best.

The picture was a warning: they'd found her. For eight years Grace Archer hoped this day wouldn't come, and knew in her heart that it would. She'd taken her daughter, Frankie, to a rural Alabama horse farm that might just as well have been at the end of the earth. But the man out to kill them would gladly follow them that far. And now, it seems, he had.

Donald believes he knows all there is to know about seeing. An optician in suburban Boston, he rests assured that he and his wife, Viv, who works at the local stables, will live out quiet lives with their two children. Then Mercury—a gorgeous young racehorse—enters their lives, and everything changes.

This volume includes: The Ghost in the First Row, The Box That Watch Found, and A Horse Named Dragon.

Nate knows how to solve crimes. He's dedicated his entire life to the force, sacrificing everything in his desperate attempt to absolve himself of the guilt he feels over his own mother's unsolved death. Sally loves Nate, but three years of waiting for him has proven one thing: his career will always come first. Not her. Frustrated by his constant absence, Sally does the unthinkable. She walks away.

Arson and murder disturb the Appalachian peace of the Blue Falls Dude Ranch near cozy Boone, NC. Jemma Chase, trail-ride leader, becomes involved when her horse finds a body. Jemma Chase works as a trail leader on her parents' ranch, the Blue Falls, where she is also an accomplished photographer, carpenter and fixer-upper. Jemma has returned home in an effort to find some stability in her life, but things become tumultuous when someone begins poisoning dogs in Watauga County. Jemma is called in for an interview with Detective Tucker and bristles at his subtly accusing manner.

Luck and fast women come to Buck Morgan like he was born into it. So does trouble. The most evil men - and the most beautiful women - conspire to crush Buck as he faces the rich and the cruel.