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Loading... Dark Horse (Elena Estes) (original 2002; edition 2004)by Tami Hoag (Author)
Work InformationDark Horse by Tami Hoag (2002)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Recovering former police detective gets back in the game by helping a girl find her sister. It gets her into the underworld of horse racing and a dysfunctional family. Very good. Warning: possible spoilers peppered throughout So, overall I thought this was a mediocre book, saddled with a subpar ending. Firstly, I noticed more than a few editing errors, and those kinds of things really get to me. For a few examples, I remember Estes grabbing "a scissors", and another time, she woke up at four thirty, did something at four, and then something else at four thirty, hard to do unless you are a sleep-worker. I did find the action somewhat compelling, but I figured the end would have Estes saving the girl, being the hero and going back to the force, but that got spoiled when the kidnapped girl shows up three quarters into the book, which at first I thought was a interesting plot twist, but the rest of the events unfolding ruined all that. The other gripe I have is with the super cliched parallel between Estes and the Golam boys trailer and the trailer she finds near the end of the book. I thought maybe she learned her lesson from the first time, obviously not, no matter what, super cliched anyway! There's a lot of murder mysteries out there, this is one of the ones I'd skip. I remember reading Harrold Robbins books one summer in college. They were filled with mostly wealthy people and 1 or 2 characters much lower in the rungs of society. The were mostly about nasty people doing nasty things to everyone around them. Oh and a lot of raunchy or oftentimes kinky sex. This book has almost all of these qualities and it is extremely well written. In this case it’s the horse show crowd in Palm Beach Florida. You have kinky sex, murder, kidnapping, and a variety of nasty people behaving badly. What a fantastic book. no reviews | add a review
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Fiction.
Mystery.
Suspense.
Thriller.
HTML:In her latest thriller, New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag takes readers on a suspense-filled ride of shocks and twists leading to an explosive finish. It is the story of an ex-cop, a missing girl, and a killer locked in a race where there can be only one winnerâ??and the losers die trying. In a trailer in a Florida swamp, time is running out for eighteen year-old Erin Seabright. A pawn in a kidnapper's terrifying game for a ransom no one can pay, her last hope is a washed-up ex-cop who has already lost it all-not once, but twice. The wealthy world of the Palm Beach horse set seems a long way from a cop's world in the narcotics division. A lifetime ago, undercover sheriff's detective Elena Estes worked the mean streets and BackTop alleys, living by her wits and playing the long odds until she took one risk too many. Now Estes lives on the ragged edge of lost hope and self-hatred, hiding from the past and believing she doesn't deserve to have a future. But the past is about to come back with a vengeance, and the future is about to become a race between life and death. A young woman is missing and her twelve year-old stepsister comes to Estes for help. No one but serious, studious Molly Seabright seems concerned about what's happened to her troubled older sister. But Molly is convinced Erin is in danger. Estes has no P.I. license, no interest in a new career, and no desire to break her self-imposed exile. But the more she learns about the people Erin Seabright was involved with, the more her long-dormant cop instincts come back to life. One trip to the show grounds where Erin worked as a groom, and Estes is quickly pulled to the dark side of a glamorous sport. Behind the glittering, ultra-rich facade is an ultra-ruthless world of drugs, payoffs, and dirty deals. A world of dissolute playboys and crooked horse-dealers, of royalty and rabble, of rivals and enemies. An obscenely wealthy world where anything can be had for a priceâ??including a life. And in that world stalks a killer who will lead Estes down a dark, twisted trail of decadence and deceit, mayhem and murderâ??from the gilded life of Palm Beach to the darkest corners of the Florida swamps, to a final show-down that could cost her everything. A race against time and evil. A race in which Estes is the dark horseâ??and no one is betting on No library descriptions found. |
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