num_pages: 256
description: When Private Investigator Agatha Raisin learns that her friend and one-time lover Charles Fraith is to be married to a mysterious socialite Miss Mary Brown-Field she sees it as her duty to find out what she can about the woman. Coming up empty Agathaout of selfless concern for Charles of coursedoes the only sensible thing she can think of: she crashes their wedding which ends in a public altercation. Nursing a hangover the next morning she gets a phone call from Charles with even more disturbing news: Mary has been murdered.Agatha takes on the case and quickly becomes entrenched in the competitive equestrian world in which Mary had been enmeshedas well as the victims surprisingly violent past. Agatha finds no shortage of motives among a wide range of characters from Mary's old riding competitors to enemies from her schoolgirl days to her surly father who threatens Agatha to mind her own business. Meanwhile the police department has its money on another suspect: Agatha. Will she track down the criminal in time or end up behind bars herself?
language: English
title: Hot to Trot
publisher: Minotaur Books