Murder Well Bred [Paperback]

Carolyn Banks (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 13, 2004

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's 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 fired 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...

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From the Inside Flap

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.... --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From the Back Cover

"Banks's techniques...is as sharp as any killer's knife blade."

-- The Washington Post

"Crisply flip dialogue is her metier."

-- Los Angeles Times --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 124 pages
• Publisher: Amber Quill Press, LLC (February 13, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1592798632
• ISBN-13: 978-1592798636
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,148,194 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Carolyn Banks is fun!, January 5, 2001

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Debra M. Hall "fsfarms" (Mims, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Murder Well-Bred (Mass Market Paperback)

All of Carolyn's books are funny, and Murder Well-Bred is no exception. To horse people, the most important thing in a book is accuracy - nothing peeves us more than reading a book that has horses in it and trip over inaccuracies on every page. Banks' books are "equinely" accurate, entertaining, and fun!

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars DELIGHTFUL, August 28, 2007

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ANN SELF "AUTHOR SOMETHING MOST DEADLY" (NEW ENGLAND) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Murder Well Bred (Paperback)

After reading reviews on several Carolyn Bank's mysteries, that were all over the map (Hated it! Loved it!) I had to read one for myself just out of curiosity. I don't know about the rest of her novels, but Murder Well Bred was a refreshing surprise. I would never call the heroine Robin Vaughn "dense" as so many have, but someone who is prone to misadventure, a victim of CMS (circumstantial misfortune syndrome). Colombo solved murders in a bumbling, sort of off-hand way, but no one would ever call him dense. Dense people never get anything, but Robin Vaughn gets it, she just arrives there in her stumblebum, Charlie Chaplin way--which is hilarious and very entertaining. These novels are definitely not formula mysteries, they are sometimes goofy, often surprising, and you just have to go where they take you. I am a big Dick Francis fan, but I can still read something a little breezier and enjoy it. This is murder light.
Despite the easy-going structure, Banks has some astute observations along the way. I laughed over the comment about people getting weird who spend too much time alone, "because there's no one around to point out the weirdness piling up".
I love Bank's first-person narrative, and the way she carries on a dialog with the reader. How many authors dare to address the reader? I've been slogging through a lot of books lately, and this book jolted my brain like a cold, sweet lemonade on a hot summer day.

9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Laughing-out loud, page turner, October 13, 1999

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Sue Hartman (Washington, PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Murder Well-Bred (Mass Market Paperback)

I haven't read a book this much fun in a LOOOONG time! Being a horse person myself, I can appreciate her horsey descriptions (which are right on) and her other "bodily function" descriptions are a hoot. A great mystery which I'd love to see on the TV screen.