Book: Paperback: Mass Market | 6.49 x 4.29in | 240 pages | ISBN 9780425212233 | 05 Sep 2006 | Berkley | 18 years
On their farm nestled in upstate Trumansburg, New York, veterinarian Austin McKenzie and his wife, Madeline, keep themselves busy looking after a variety of ailing farm animals and pets in poor health. But while they may be able to mend creatures great and small, they have yet to find a cure for murder...
Austin has never been a fan of high-society horseplay. So when he’s invited to be the veterinary delegate to the Earlsdown Three Day Event, he bluntly refuses. Madeline, however, reminds him how much they could use the money—and how much she would love to take the trip with him. But trouble rears up before they even leave town when one of Austin’s fellow vets is killed by a sniper—and no one has a clue as to why. Now, as they jump into the high-stakes world of equestrian competition, Austin and Madeline must try to rein in a killer...
Put to sleep
The chief of the Ithaca Police Department stepped forward and leaned into a microphone. He was familiar to anyone who had lived and worked in the area as long as I had—a good man, the scuttlebutt had it, and an honest one. His manner was direct, somewhat uncompromising, and succinct:
“Veterinarian Benjamin Grazley of the Canandaigua Equine Clinic was forty-six years old. He had been traveling north on Route 96 and stopped at a gas station in the town of Covert. He was shot to death at approximately nine-fifteen.
“He left a widow and two children.”
A cacophony of shouts erupted from the mass of reporters, but Rita herself shouted the word that the entire room had feared to hear… Sniper.
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