Death Reins In — Michele Scott

Michaela Bancroft is expanding her training business-- with riding lessons--and four new horses purchased from her colleague Audrey Pratt. But the enterprise takes a deadly twist when Audrey is found in the stalls, strangled to death with a pair of reins...

Michaela knows she should let the cops handle it, but detecting is becoming second nature for the beautiful horse trainer. Besides, the murder is too close to home for her not to get involved. She just never expected the clues to take her from the dark corners of a seedy country-western bar to a Malibu estate that harbors the secrets of one of the most well-renowned quarter horse owners in the country. But what secrets are worth dying for? Michaela might want to find the answer fast because she's next on the killer's hit list...