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The Cart Before The Corpse (Merry Abbot, Bk 1)
The Cart Before The Corpse - Merry Abbot, Bk 1 Author:Carolyn McSparren Jane Austen, meet Mad Max. — Famous southern carriage-horse trainer Hiram Lackland, a handsome widower, dies mysteriously after retiring to a farm outside Mossy Creek. His estranged daughter, Merry Abbott, also a horse trainer, arrives to settle his estate. But Merry quickly plunges into bit-chomping dilemmas when her father's friend and land... more »lord, mystery-novel maven Peggy Caldwell, insists he was murdered.
Before Merry can so much as snap a buggy rein, a handsome and annoying GBI investigator, Geoff Madison, is on her case. Then there's the troublesome donkey: Don Qui. Short for Don Quixote. And the fact that Hiram was teaching all of Mossy Creek's lonely women how to--ahem--drive his carriage.
Can Merry rein in the truth? What kind of horse play was her rakish dad involved in, and why would someone want to giddy-yup him into an early grave?« less
A delightful mystery that kept me in suspense until the end. Even a few mispelled words do not keep it from being a winner. Can't wait for the next one.