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Dark horse / Tami Hoag.

Hoag, Tami. (Author).

Summary:

The wealthy world of the Palm Beach horsey set seems a long way from a cop's world in the narotics division. A lifetime ago, undercover sheriff's detective Elena Estes work the mean streets and back 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 comes to Estes for help. No one but serious, studious Molly Seabright seems concerned about what happened to her troubled older sister. But Molly is convinced that Erin is in danger. Estes has no P.I. license, no interest in a naw 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 into the dark side of the glamorous sport. Behind the glittering, ultrarich facade is an untraruthless 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 price - including a life. And in that world stalks a killer who will lead Estes down a dark, twisted trail of decadene and decit, mayham and murder - from the gilded life of Palm Beach to a final show down that could cost her everything. A race against time and evil. A race where Etes is the dark horse...and no one is betting on her to win.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780553583571 :
  • ISBN: 0553583573 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9780553801927
  • ISBN: 0553801929
  • ISBN: 0553583573 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: x, 435 p. ; 25 cm. : ill.
  • Edition: ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Bantam Books, 2002.
Subject: Estes, Elena (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Women detectives > Florida > Fiction.
Teenage girls > Fiction.
Dressage > Competitions > Fiction.
Ex-police officers > Fiction.
Horse industry > Fiction.
Kidnapping > Fiction.
Florida > Fiction.
Genre: Crime thrillers.
Suspense fiction.

Available copies

  • 10 of 11 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Salmo Public Library.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 11 total copies.
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Salmo Public Library PBK FIC HOA (Text) SPL24950 Paperback Fiction Volume hold Available -

  • Baker & Taylor
    Disillusioned and an outcast after her unpredictability and recklessness cost the life of a fellow officer in the narcotics division of the Palm Beach County sheriff's office, ex-cop Elena Estes seeks refuge in rural Wellington, Florida, where she comes face to face with the ruthlessness, human frailty, and dark underbelly of international horse riding competition while searching for a missing girl. Reprint.
  • Baker & Taylor
    An outcast after her actions cost the life of a fellow officer in the Palm Beach County sheriff's office, ex-cop Elena Estes seeks refuge in rural Florida, where she confronts the ruthlessness of international equestrian competions while searching for a missing girl.
  • Random House, Inc.
    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 winner—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 price—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 murder—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 horse—and no one is betting on her to win.

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