Saddled With Trouble, by Michele Scott, 2006 - is the first in the "Horse Lover's Mystery Series" - another one of those series where the heroine/detective knows nothing about police work, but nevertheless always gets mixed up in murders.
The author, Michele Scott, is also author of the "Wine Lovers' Mystery Series."
Well, I have to say I didn't care for it very much. The heroine, Michaela Bancroft, is a horse trainer, with a husband who has cheated on her and wants a divorce. The hubby's mistress, a beauty pageant winner, is not shy about harassing Michaela to sign the divorce papers, which she doesn't want to do until her soon-to-be ex owes her a great deal of money.
Michaela's uncle, Lou, another horse trainer, is found murdered in a stall, trampled by a horse.
Michaela sets out to find out who did it. She lives in her house with a new roomate, Camden, a beautiful woman who goes around marrying men for their money. Her latest husband, however, had been too smart for her, and she ended up not getting enough money in the divorce to support her in the habit she'd become accustomed, so she's freeloading off Michaela. (Not that Michaela thinks of it that way - that's my take on it.)
I didn't care for the characters, I didn't care for the soap opera -- I want detectives who don't have personal problems or who have solved them long ago -- and I wasn't very impressed with the writing, either. It just didn't seem to flow.
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