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The Alibi Man (Elena Estes #2)
by
Tami Hoag
She was a vision. She was a siren. She was a nightmare. She was dead. Now he needed her to disappear. And he knew just how to make it happen. The Palm Beach elite go to great lengths to protect their own—and their own no longer includes Elena Estes. Once upon a time a child of wealth and privilege, Elena turned her back on that life. Betrayed and disillusioned by those clo...more
Hardcover, 368 pages
Published
March 27th 2007
by Bantam
(first published January 1st 2007)
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Book2 Elena Estes series
Ex-narcotics detective Elena Estes wants to live in peace training her horses. But when she discovers the abused body of a young female co-worker dumped in a canal, she is drawn back into action and launches an investigation. As Elena delves into her dead friend's secret life, she discovers ties not only to the Russian mob but also to a group of powerful and wealthy Palm Beach bad boys known for giving each other alibis to cover a multitude of sins. She is now more determ...more
Ex-narcotics detective Elena Estes wants to live in peace training her horses. But when she discovers the abused body of a young female co-worker dumped in a canal, she is drawn back into action and launches an investigation. As Elena delves into her dead friend's secret life, she discovers ties not only to the Russian mob but also to a group of powerful and wealthy Palm Beach bad boys known for giving each other alibis to cover a multitude of sins. She is now more determ...more
Elena Estes is working on a horse farm in Palm Beach polo country, recovering from psychic and physical injuries received during her final days as a cop. While exercising one of the ponies, she is horrified to discover the body of a co-worker submerged in a swampy canal, badly mauled by alligators. An experienced detective, Elena is not content to leave the investigation to her former department, even though it's lead by the man with whom she recently ended an affair. The dead woman, Irina Marko...more
Jul 26, 2012
Jackie
rated it
4 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
used-from-1-5-price-books,
read-in-2012
It has been a while since last read a book written by author Tami Hoag, now after finishing The Alibi Man it has been brought home why her suspense thrillers are among my all time favorite reading pleasures!
I read Dark Horse years ago, it being the first in Hoag's Elena Estes series and enjoyed trying to figure out who the villain was. In this second book the story is even more fast paced, has more red herrings to slow you down in solving the mystery and enough hidden agendas to make what really...more
I read Dark Horse years ago, it being the first in Hoag's Elena Estes series and enjoyed trying to figure out who the villain was. In this second book the story is even more fast paced, has more red herrings to slow you down in solving the mystery and enough hidden agendas to make what really...more
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Although I have been a fan of Tami Hoag for her former novels, The Alibi Man has put her at the top of my favorite writer list. This fast-moving story, centered on the corruption of wealthy Palm Beach society, is one of long-overdue justice finally coming home. The protagonist, the former detective Elena Estes, is one of the most compelling characters I have come across in reading. She is flawed, fearless and entirely engaging....more
Although I have been a fan of Tami Hoag for her former novels, The Alibi Man has put her at the top of my favorite writer list. This fast-moving story, centered on the corruption of wealthy Palm Beach society, is one of long-overdue justice finally coming home. The protagonist, the former detective Elena Estes, is one of the most compelling characters I have come across in reading. She is flawed, fearless and entirely engaging....more
Spectacular. Keeps the rollers in my head going! My friend and I enjoyed guessing who was the murderer. I found myself liking Elena's sass though at time I wish she wasn't so pricky. James was a little bland but the romance between them was really sweet.
The case itself is very simple but solving it is far from simple. This probably because of The Alibi Club.Since the rich and pampered guys wanted to protect one and another, this just give our detectives a major headache. Irina, the victim, is re...more
The case itself is very simple but solving it is far from simple. This probably because of The Alibi Club.Since the rich and pampered guys wanted to protect one and another, this just give our detectives a major headache. Irina, the victim, is re...more
In ultra-chic, ultra-rich Palm Beach, Elena Estes stands out for three things: her beauty, her talent as an equestrienne and her troubled past. Once a sought-after show horse rider and trainer, she now works as a stable hand for an old friend. While riding her horse one morning, Elena discovers a woman's body dumped in a canal. Who killed her? Every Palm Beach playboy, including Elena's former fiance, is under suspicion.
Hoag is a master of plot twists. Just when you think you know who the kille...more
Hoag is a master of plot twists. Just when you think you know who the kille...more
The Palm Beach elite go to great lengths to protect their own-and their own no longer includes Elena Estes. Once upon a time a child of wealth and privilege, Elena turned her back on that life and chose the life of an undercover cop. Then a tragic, haunting mistake ended her career. Now Elena exists on the fringes of her old life. But a shocking event is about to draw her back into the painful vortex she's fought so hard to leave behind.
Elena stumbles upon the body of her groom (horse farm) and...more
Elena stumbles upon the body of her groom (horse farm) and...more
Main character, Elena Estes, was first introduced in the novel Dark Horse and trouble is still finding her. Her complicated family history and troubled past which have soured her on life, is dredged up when her past combines with the present murder of an acquaintance. Not one to sit idle on the sidelines, the former cop involves herself in discovering who murdered her friend. What she finds is a confrontation with her past.
This was a quick-read with plenty of action and suspense. Lots of players...more
This was a quick-read with plenty of action and suspense. Lots of players...more
This is my first Tami Hoag book, but certainly not my last. It's also the second of her Elena Estes books and I'm eager to read the first one as well as any subsequent ones Ms. Hoag writes. Elena is a former cop who now works as a horse groomer, but can't help herself when it comes to investigating crime. Elena is an adopted child who was a great disappoontment to her wealthy parents because she wouldn't toe their line. Her father, Edward, a very prominent attorney in Wellington, Florida is set...more
Very quick read...I got it done in two days! A lot of mystery...a couple gruesome parts (if you are a visual person like myself you can only imagine what it would be like). Keeps you guessing til the end...unless I'm just real slow on the uptake.
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Dec 04, 2010
Linda
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
thriller/suspense fans
Shelves:
fiction,
mystery-thriller
Perfectly satisfying Tami Hoag fare. The Alibi Man gives us a troubled heroine, damaged and, yeah, a little bitter, but with a fixed core of humanity and a fierce sense of justice. We root for and identify with Elena Estes as much as we're interested in untangling the murder mystery. As for the murder plot, it mixes in your standard rough and scary criminal types alongside the smooth-talking, no-one-would-suspect-me nasties that are all the more dangerous for their ability to get away with murde...more
Elena Estes is back in another mystery among the super rich horse set in FL. Out for a ride, she comes across a body in a canal and calls it in to Det. Landry.
It turns out to be the body of Irina, the Russian stable hand where Elena lives. Elena's unofficial investigations leads her back into the company of the very rich who are above the laws applying to the common folk and also into a brush with the Russian Mafia. She is put up against her ex fiancee and eventually her estranged father before...more
It turns out to be the body of Irina, the Russian stable hand where Elena lives. Elena's unofficial investigations leads her back into the company of the very rich who are above the laws applying to the common folk and also into a brush with the Russian Mafia. She is put up against her ex fiancee and eventually her estranged father before...more
I really enjoyed this book. There were some parts that were predictable. I liked the way Hoag strayed a bit from the typical girl meets boy and they fall in love mystery. The story uses main characters from Tami's other book Dark Horse. But, you didn't need to be familiar with dark horse to get the idea of this book.
Main Character, Elena, is a very strong character who tries to find out who killed a girl she knew from the horse world. The novel is not to friendly to polo players or big money ma...more
Main Character, Elena, is a very strong character who tries to find out who killed a girl she knew from the horse world. The novel is not to friendly to polo players or big money ma...more
This is one murder mystery book that keeps you very interested right up to the end. You did not know who to trust, who was going to die next and who really did what murder. It is not a sweet story. People die who you think would not or should not.
I realized a few pages into this book it was a second of series. I really enjoyed the first Elena Estes book by Tami Hoag, but I thought this book was far better in many ways. The plot and suspense was better. This book was more of a thriller. Not to s...more
I realized a few pages into this book it was a second of series. I really enjoyed the first Elena Estes book by Tami Hoag, but I thought this book was far better in many ways. The plot and suspense was better. This book was more of a thriller. Not to s...more
Aug 30, 2011
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8.28.11 haven't been able to get into any book since the Robert McCammon fiasco - I think this one is going to hold my interest. I have so many to read stacked up here - and not enough time in the world to get to them all!
Ahhhhh....
8.30.11 - finished the last little tidbit this morning. It's a good start to getting back to devouring the books!
Y'all know about Tami Hoag, don't you? I read her books in order. Yes, I am anal about that. They are a good summer read for readings sake - tense, colorfu...more
Ahhhhh....
8.30.11 - finished the last little tidbit this morning. It's a good start to getting back to devouring the books!
Y'all know about Tami Hoag, don't you? I read her books in order. Yes, I am anal about that. They are a good summer read for readings sake - tense, colorfu...more
Elena Estes was jaded, she’d been hurt, both physically and emotionally, almost killed, put back together again, she’d seen it all...or so she thought!
Elena was an ex-Narcotics cop, and had quit when an incident happened which she took full responsibility for...she was guilty, and couldn’t get past that guilt! Now she worked as a groom, with the one and only thing she loved, her beautiful horses. The morning which was to change her life yet again started out with a wonderful ride, a full on gall...more
Elena was an ex-Narcotics cop, and had quit when an incident happened which she took full responsibility for...she was guilty, and couldn’t get past that guilt! Now she worked as a groom, with the one and only thing she loved, her beautiful horses. The morning which was to change her life yet again started out with a wonderful ride, a full on gall...more
Over the years, I believe that I’ve read and enjoyed most of Tami Hoag’s books, but I don’t think I’ve read the first Elena Estes book, Dark Horse. In other words, Elena Estes came across as a very fresh and totally original character. Elena is a strong-willed, independent, cynical and smart woman. She’s around forty years old, and being an ex-cop, she’s unafraid and courageous. She’s cut all her ties with her adoptive rich Palm Beach parents and lives on a friend’s horse farm as a horse rider....more
ALIBI MAN (Unlicensed Investigator-Florida-Cont) – VG
Hoag, Tami – 2nd in series
Bantam, 2007 – US Hardcover – ISBN: 9780553802016
First Sentence: She floated on the face of the pool like an exotic water lily.
*** Elena Estes is a former homicide investigator now living and working at the stable yard of her best friend, Sean. Although she could cope with the unexpected bolting of the horse she was riding, she hadn’t expected having to deal with finding the dead and alligator mutilated body of Irina,...more
Hoag, Tami – 2nd in series
Bantam, 2007 – US Hardcover – ISBN: 9780553802016
First Sentence: She floated on the face of the pool like an exotic water lily.
*** Elena Estes is a former homicide investigator now living and working at the stable yard of her best friend, Sean. Although she could cope with the unexpected bolting of the horse she was riding, she hadn’t expected having to deal with finding the dead and alligator mutilated body of Irina,...more
2 and a half stars. This is the 4th book I've read by Hoag and the worst. The previous one I read was quite good, so this one was a disappointment even after the dullness of the main story. The action was slow, the characters mostly cardboard. I didn't realize for awhile that it was a sequel. Had I read the first book perhaps I would have brought some carryover like. The ending was ridiculous. Had this been the first book I read by her, I probably wouldn't try another.
Tami Hoag delivers a work in The Alibi Man that is elegant, witty, action-packed and suspensful. Centered around the main character, Elena Estes, who has been hardened by the world around her and who is a die hard crime solver, this book carries the reader through the twisting world of the Wellington horse world elite. Hoag's dialogue is crisp and entertaining, her characters are intriguing and the story holds the reader from beginning to end.
What i loved about this series, was the fact that the witness was a cop this time and the insight to her life through flashbacks throughout the book really made the story move a lot quicker. Tami Hoag's novels really are one to read. They keep you reading and wanting more until she finally reveals everything at the end, and at that point she's thrown so many twists in the story, you can't tell elft from right let alone 'who dun'it'
Someone picked this book for book club. I may be a little unfair of a reviewer because this isn't my usual book genre. I don't usually not finish a book, but I couldn't get through this book. It was that unbearable for me. I don't care for CSI dramas and lots of swearing, which is basically all I was getting out of the book. At book club the girl apologized for suggesting the book and we didn't even talk about it...it was that good.
A good murder mystery, but nothing much likable about the characters. The heroine makes Sue Grafton's Heroine look like a princess. There's no real romance at all, and that's okay in some books but would have made this one a little more palatable. I can't see this heroine having a romance, though, and the character of Elena made me pretty sad at times.
I got through it fairly fast, and so it gets three stars. It's probably more like 2 and 1/2.
I got through it fairly fast, and so it gets three stars. It's probably more like 2 and 1/2.
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Elena Estes is full of anger and angst. One day while riding a horse, she comes across a dead body. She then discovers that she knows the victim. She quickly calls the police and joins the investigation to find out who killed Irina, a fellow horse excerciser. In the process, she vividly displays the world of the rich and famous polo players in Florida. Full of suspense and intrigue, this is a good read.
A so-so 'thriller' which features a sewer-mouthed heroine who is/was a cop (perhaps that accounts for the dialog she has been given). Too much of the book describes her many failed relationships which becomes very tiresome after a while. A contrived ending which sees everyone who has wronged the heroine or ever committed a crime ending up dead or in custody leaves the reader with a very unsatisfied feeling.
Until I was adding this book to my bookshelf at Goodreads, I hadn't realized that this was part of a series. The Alibi Man was so well written that although you knew there was a back-story, but I never felt that I was missing something. This is definitely the case with other series when I've read them out of order. Well done and I'm giving it 4 stars since it was a very good mystery/suspense novel.
A good book. Fast-moving. Group of wealthy men give each other alibis, but do they do it for murder? Elena is so bent on revenge, she is convinced her former fiance is the murderer, and keeps building her case. In the end, he's innocent but killed because someone else thinks he's the murdere. Not good law enforcement. Lot of characters intermingled--female grooms and wealthy men? Seems improbable.
I usually like Hoag. The mystery in this is good, but the main character, Elena Estes is obnoxious.
I am not the type of person who has to like a character to like them. I mean like in terms of, like to have tea with them or something. Some of my favorite characters of all time are awful people and I detest them, but they're compelling. . . There is nothing compelling about Estes.
She is whiny and mean spirited and so terribly sorry for herself. She is the type of person who loves their own pain,...more
I am not the type of person who has to like a character to like them. I mean like in terms of, like to have tea with them or something. Some of my favorite characters of all time are awful people and I detest them, but they're compelling. . . There is nothing compelling about Estes.
She is whiny and mean spirited and so terribly sorry for herself. She is the type of person who loves their own pain,...more
Story of hatred bottled up, but used for productive results. Rich parents adopt daughter because it's in-vogue at the time. Daughter becomes a detective. After she quits her detective job she goes to riding horses in a neighborhood among her previous rich family. She ends up working a case that involves her long ago fiance.
The case seems clear until a twist at the end.;
The case seems clear until a twist at the end.;
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Tami Hoag is the #1 international bestselling author of thirty books. Renowned for combining thrilling plots with character-driven suspense, Hoag first hit the New York Times bestseller list with Night Sins, and each of her books since has been a bestseller. She lives in Southern California and Florida.
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