Chestnut Mare, Beware - Hardcover

Equestrienne journalist Nattie Gold investigates an anonymous letter to the local newspaper threatening horrible deaths for wealthy citizens involved in the show-horse circuit and helps a grieving mother prove that her daughter's death was no accident, but murder.

tful," raved the Washington Post Book World of Jody Jaffe's first mystery thriller, Horse of a Different Killer, "I hope Natalie Gold doesn't wait too long before jumping back into the suspense-story saddle again." Now, the wait is over: Equestrienne journalist Nattie Gold is back--and with the threat of murder afoot, it may just be her final ride.
It's Christmas, but at the Charlotte Commercial Appeal two disturbing events nip Nattie's holiday in the bud. One is a chilling anonymous letter that threatens big-wig Carolinians--many of them known to Nattie from the show horse circuit--with horrible death. Then she's approached by a woman with a strange tale about her beautiful dead daughter. The official version of how former beauty queen Josane Ashmore died is that she was trampled by her unruly chestnut mare. Her mother declares that it was murder. Can Nattie go to Virginia and prove it?
Nattie and her friend, Henry Goode, the paper's chief investigative reporter, light out