<![CDATA[Dark Horse (Elena Estes, #1)]]>

false <![CDATA[Dark Horse (Elena Estes, #1)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171057640m/84849.jpg 84849 19 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. From the Hardcover edition. 1069641 book 2002 Dark Horse total:905|5:177|4:304|3:324|2:84|1:16| 905 3257 1212 42 4 0 false false Fri Aug 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 13:55:49 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 09 07:47:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Aug 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 11 10:08:41 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 15:25:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jul 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 08:16:10 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 06:37:36 -0700 2009
I don't really understand the whole horse thing. I don't really like horses too much. So the fact that some people's livelihood rests on horses seems strange to me.

The reason I pick up this (audio)book is that I see peop...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Nov 16 17:50:55 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 16 17:51:43 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2002 Wed Sep 19 12:21:57 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 19 12:23:58 -0700 2007 Hoag, Tami
Elena Estes is a former cop whose bravado on the force resulted in a colleague's death; it also cost her her job and her self-esteem, not to mention the psychological and physical fallout from nearly being shot. She's been keeping a low profile at a friend's Florid...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 08 16:38:54 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 16:43:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Apr 21 08:51:15 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 21 08:54:21 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jul 02 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Feb 08 08:24:36 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 08:24:52 -0800 2009 ]]> 2 0 false false Sat Jan 31 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 15:57:49 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 15:59:12 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Mon Jul 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 15:03:12 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 18:30:43 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Mar 14 09:31:36 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 14 09:32:09 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Sep 27 15:19:41 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 15:20:44 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Apr 15 18:34:29 -0700 2008 Tue Jan 27 07:13:47 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Mar 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 17:38:49 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 17:39:19 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Jul 28 15:22:10 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 15:22:23 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 22 18:23:00 -0700 2008 Thu Nov 13 17:10:38 -0800 2008
it was a slow start but the excitement continuously build up. until the last twenty pages, have no idea who is ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Sep 25 13:34:55 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 13:34:55 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri May 22 15:04:48 -0700 2009 Fri May 22 15:05:12 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Jan 27 19:26:37 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 15 18:52:09 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 19:26:37 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Mar 26 18:54:17 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 01 20:06:46 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 26 18:54:17 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=84849