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Banks, Carolyn

Genre Fiction

Morrow/Avon

Mr. Right

Warner Books, Incorporated

Death by Dressage

"Banks' techniuqe...is as sharp as any killer's knife blade." THE WASHINGTON POST Nobody much cares for Nika Ballinger, but that doesn't mean her violent death shouldn't be looked into. Fellow horsewoman Robin Vaughan doesn't like the way the police investigation is going. In the perfect world of competitive dressage, Nika rode like a piece of luggage. So who arranged to have a horse kick her death? As Robin mounts her own search for the killer, she rummages through Nika's untidy past--and finds a bizarre double life that someone might kill to keep secret.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Fawcett

Groomed for Death

So Texas horsewoman Robin Vaughan isn't much surprised to find herself flat on the sidewalk the first time she leaves her hotel. More surprising is the young woman who picks her up. In her black fishnet stockings, Flora looks more like a hooker than someone who gets up at five A.M. to feed the horses at an uptown riding stable. She may in fact be a hooker, for when Jeet, Robin's nervous husband, calls Claremont Riding Academy to confirm her identity, nobody there has heard of her. But is the staff at Claremont as sinister as Flora claims? Or is trustful Robin being set up for a deadly fall? There's only one way to make sure, Robin takes a ride on the wild side of the West Side that culminates in glory...but not before murder is done.

San Miguel de Allende is a vacation paradise -- until murder takes a holiday.While her food critic husband, Jeet, checks out San Miguel's cuisine, equestrienne Robin Vaughan heads for the country to interview a famed dressage master. But Hans Bell is nastily uncooperative, his elegant horses are nervous, and the interview is a flop. So an encounter with an old Texas friend, Marilee Hart, who's sitting pretty on a wonderful ranch called Milagro -- "Miracle." Marilee is not friendly and, like Bell's horses, she's terribly nervous. And before long, she's dead.Who fires the shots that killed her? Why is Milagro such a deep secret? Wild horses couldn't keep Robin from snooping for the truth, a story too bizarre to believe -- and much too dangerous to print....

Murder Well-Bred

"Carolyn Banks has a sense of style and wit." --The New York Times BEAD, TEXAS, IS A DEAD END. Little white houses, the yard-of-the-week competition, new hanging files in the insurance company--that's about it for Bead. Not even the hit-and-run death of the editor of the Bead Weekly rouses this Texas backwater from its torpor. But nosy newcomer Robin Vaughan, hunting for a place to board her two cherished horses, sniffs trouble in this tumbleweed paradise. While her husband, Jeet, settles in as the new editor of the newspaper, reckless Robin asks incautious questions. Why is a famous equestrienne, a star in the exclusive world of dressage, holed up on a rundown farm? Who's the lurking local clone of Norman Bates in Psycho? Is it senility that makes old Boone DeWitt claim he's oil rich? Who killed nice Townsend Loving and why? Before she knows it, Robin's headed for a dead end of her own. . . . "Banks's technique . . . is as sharp as any killer's knife blade." --The Washington Post "Crisply flip dialogue is her métier." --Los Angeles Times

Death on the Diagonal

WHO'S BEATING A DEAD HORSE? Certainly not die-hard horse aficionado Robin Vaughan. She would never lay a hand on any four-legged creature, least of all the magnificent horse her friend Lola had just received as a Christmas gift. But Robin suspects that beautiful Noel isn't quite the horse he seems. For one thing he killed his last owner. For another he bears an uncanny resemblance to a horse called Wickie, who haunts Robin's past and whom she knows to be dead. In fact, she'd swear that Noel is Wickie. Can she prove it? She decides to try, and uncovers a scam so far-fetched it can hardly be believed and a villain too repellent to be real. But he's not only real, he's deadly dangerous, and Robin's on a breakneck ride with destiny--toward confrontation, truth, and terminal terror. . . . "Carolyn Banks has a sense of style and wit." --The New York Times "Crisply flip dialogue is her métier." --Los Angeles Times

Horse to Die For

The Girls on the Row

After moving into a Washington, D.C. house whose previous owner, Faye Arensberg, was murdered--a case still unsolved--the beautiful, mesmerizing Claire becomes the target of an obsessive killer

United States

CROWN PUB.

After discovering that her ex-husband was brutally murdered in his home, Rachel is certain that the killer is their son, Drew, recently released from a home for disturbed children--and that she's his next target

Thrillers & Suspense

Random House Value Publishing

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Mr. Right

Death by Dressage

Groomed for Death

Murder Well-Bred

Death on the Diagonal

Horse to Die For

The Girls on the Row

The Girls on the Row

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