Lead a Horse to Murder

Baxter's cleverly constructed mystery chock-full of dysfunctional characters all hiding motives for murder. While tending to sprained tendon of one of Andrew MacKinnon's prized horses, Jessie admires a breathtakingly skilled and handsome polo player practicing off in the distance. But by the time she's helped the horse back to health, the polo player, Eduardo Garcia, has been poisoned bo death. Jessie can't get the image of the talented Argentine horseman out of her min, and despite her humble roots, managed to ingratiate herself into MacKinnono's world and gain entre to Heatherfield's many polo soirees and events. In a series of unlikely, though amusing, social maneuvers, Jessie gets to know everyone from Callie, MacKinnon's overweight and surly daughter, to Inez, the observant Puerto Rican maid, in an effort to solve the crime.