Carolyn Banks based the character of William Holland on the high-profile case of Bradford Bishop, the State Department official who, in 1976, murdered his mother, his wife, and his three children in their suburban Maryland home. Allegedly, Bishop loa...
NIKA BALLINGER IS A BLUE RIBBON BITCH She's sly, selfish, and second-rate, a spoiler of horses and men. And she's come a cropper at last, with only a rich husband to mourn her violent death, which appears to be murder. Be that as it nay, fellow...
So Texas horsewoman Robin Vaughan isn't much surprised to find herself flat on the sidewalk the first time she leaves her hotel. More surprising is the young woman who picks her up. In her black fishnet stockings, Flora looks more like a hooker than ...
San Miguel de Allende is a vacation paradise -- until murder takes a holiday.
While her food critic husband, Jeet, checks out San Miguel's cuisine, equestrienne Robin Vaughan heads for the country to interview a famed dressage master. But Hans...
BEAD, TEXAS, IS A DEAD END. Little white houses, the yard-of-the-week competition, new hanging files in the insurance company--that's about it for Bead. Not even the hit-and-run death of the editor of the Bead Weekly rouses this Texas backwater fr...
WHO'S BEATING A DEAD HORSE? Certainly not die-hard horse aficionado Robin Vaughan. She would never lay a hand on any four-legged creature, least of all the magnificent horse her friend Lola had just received as a Christmas gift. But Robin s...
Eleanor Armitage has isolated herself in the small town where she's chosen to live. Her job selecting fabrics for a designer makes it possible for her to work and travel without much personal contact with others. She's not unhappy; she's just, by des...