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Chasing Cans
A Gail McCarthy Mystery #10

by Laura Crum



      Laura Crum's resilient heroine Gail McCarthy is back in the saddle for the tenth novel in this long running series. This latest adventure, Chasing Cans, takes its name from the sport of barrel racing, which is a staple of the rodeo circuit.

In the previous nine stories, Gail has been gainfully employed as an equine vet in Northern California's Santa Cruz County. When not attending to her four-legged patients, Gail has played amateur detective, assisting the local sheriff's office solve horse related crimes.

With an infant son to raise, Gail has taken some time off from her practice to stay home and care for Mac. But even though she doesn't wander far from her ranch, her own horses and baby, Gail manages to get involved in another nasty murder case.

In this instance, the action unfolds right next door to Gail's property. When Lindee Stone, Gail's not-so-nice neighbor, dies when a horse she is training rears and falls on her, the vet doesn't believe it is an accident.

When a second rider meets a similar fate in the same corral but survives the fall, Gail is convinced something other than the quirkiness of the horse is to blame. Launching her own informal investigation, Gail discovers that not only are the two events connected, but they also point to a messy situation of "musical beds" that a group of women and men she knows have been playing.

The Book

Perserverance Press / John Daniel & Co.
March 2008
Paperback
9781880284940
Mystery
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Excerpt
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The Reviewer

Bob Walch
Reviewed 2008
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