A Carrot for the Donkey — Les Roberts

#3 in the Saxon mystery series. Hotshot producer Mark Evering can’t understand why his daughter has run off with a shady lawyer twice her age when her father has given her everything—including a Betty Ford detox for her high-school graduation. Saxon, hired to bring her back home, follows the trail to the wide-open Mexican border town of Tijuana, where he confronts a brutal landowner and his beautiful wife, an arrogant matador, a tough and humorless Tijuana cop—and the most gruesome murder of his career.