Review: It happened in Tombstone
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 31, 2014
There are a lot of characters and twists and turns in this book.  The setting is in and around Tombstone, Arizona.  The story is very much about raising and training horses as well as the solving of murders.The heroine, Maggie O'Neil, is a probation officer and a very gutsy lady.  She is  very busy doing her job, training horses and sticking her nose where she does not have authority to do so.  One of her parolees is missing and then found dead.  Maggie is determined to find out how he died.  She believes his death might not be an accident, and it just might be murder.  Along the way of finding answers, Maggie unearths quite a few unsavory characters involved in drugs, prostitution, kidnapping of horses, killing of horses etc.  Murder and mayhem abound!  As she begins to put the pieces of the puzzle in place, Maggie suspects there is a connection between her now dead probationer, his tortured and murdered girlfriend, and a very valuable missing stud and show horse.Along the way of finding answers, Maggie finds herself in places that could get her into lots of hot water where her safety, her job and her life are concerned.  For me, the story picked up in the last few chapters with a bit of a surprise ending. Unlike most of the other reviewers, however, I did not find the book a page turner nor one that I just could not put down.  It put me to sleep a couple of times.  This is one of my favorite authors, and some of her other books were page turners that made my hair stand on end.  However,  while this one had some interesting parts it also meandered with a a bit too much banter for me.  It was not a bad book....just an okay one with 3.5 stars.