| A thoroughly suspenseful story that was very hard to | | | | polo club, the International Polo Club, where the rich |
| leave. I have read all of Tami Hoag's books and this | | | | loved to play. One of the rich star polo players was |
| might be the best. A group of rich men think they have | | | | Juan Barbaro, a handsome man that loved good |
| devised a way to cover themselves from guilt by lying | | | | looking and rich women and while Elena was not rich, |
| and giving alibi's for each other when one of them is in | | | | she was good looking. Barbaro was a member of the |
| trouble. It works great for them as long as they all stay | | | | Alibi Club as was Elena's former fiancé. |
| together when they give their alibi's for each other, but | | | | Bennett Walker. Elena hated Walker's guts and |
| will they be able to continue to do just that? | | | | couldn't stand being around him and she knew in her |
| Elena Estes used to be a cop but she decided that | | | | mind that with all the bad things he had done when she |
| she liked the company of horses much more than | | | | was associated with him, he could have had |
| those she had to confront as a cop. A good friend of | | | | something to do in the murder. |
| hers, Sean Avadon, owned a horse farm and Elena | | | | Barbaro wanted Elena and she wasn't too unhappy |
| had gone to work for him after her time as a cop. | | | | being with him except for his alibi connection. When |
| Elena loved to ride horses, enjoying the freedom one | | | | Elena is contacted in a far too menacingly way by a |
| gets while roaming the peaceful countryside. But when | | | | member of the Russian mob, Alexi Kulak, she got |
| she finds the body of a woman in a canal during one | | | | scared and knew there was much more to this |
| of her rides, her enjoyable ride turned nasty all at once. | | | | murder along with the murder of another girl that |
| An alligator and some of the many flesh eaters in a | | | | showed up dead in the area. Now it appears to be a |
| Florida canal were enjoying the body. Elena phoned | | | | possible prostitution ring connecting the Russian mob |
| her old police friend, James Landry, and he started the | | | | and the Alibi Club rich guys. |
| cops rolling to the remote area. The victim turned out | | | | If all of the above doesn't spark your desire to read |
| to be Irina Markova, a co-worker of Elena's at the | | | | this book nothing will. Tami Hoag has written a |
| horse farm. | | | | non-stop action thriller that connects many facets of |
| Elena being an ex-cop was told by Landry not to start | | | | Palm Beach, Florida rich polo life, and Russian mobs |
| investigating on her own since she was no longer a | | | | with the police interaction keeping Elena in the action all |
| cop. But Landry knew Elena would not listen and | | | | the way. Though scared she was not one to quit |
| would delve into the case secretly, especially since she | | | | when her friends were involved. A MUST read. |
| knew the victim fairly well. In the area was a famous | | | | |