There are 101 ways to be eliminated in Dressage. Dying usually isn't one of them! But Susie's qualifying ride ended that way, in a seemingly motiveless murder.
A waste of time, sadly. It starts off very well, with a shooting of a competitor in the arena during a show. It then meanders through half a dozen subplots, including abusive husbands, stereotyped Mafia characters, drug trafficking, family dramas, and detailed descriptions of training and riding sessions. Searching for the killer? Oh, yeah, maybe here and there a mention of made of the investigation. At the very end -- as in the next to last page -- we're told that the victim was not the intended victim. The hired gun misunderstood who he was supposed to shoot. (Has to do with being clever with the letters around the arena. Instead of just saying where the victim was sitting, the instructions were all about which letter to aim for.) Really disappointed.