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Overview
California veterinarian-turned-amateur-sleuth Gail McCarthy made her debut in Laura Crum's Cutter to a well-deserved round of critical acclaim. The young vet's second effort at detection takes her back into the world of Western cowhorses - the working horses of today's West. The pay's not great, but the work is rewarding, and Gail McCarthy is a horse vet with a hectic schedule - not to mention a dog, a horse, a house payment, and a new boyfriend all clamoring for attention. Her life is more than a little disrupted when she discovers two dead bodies during the course of a routine call. Murder is upsetting enough, but when a midnight emergency turns into an attempt on her own life, Gail begins to see the quiet beachside town of Santa Cruz as a rather frightening place. The cops are not too concerned with the situation, writing off the two deaths as the work of a vagrant and the attack on Gail as the work of an overactive imagination. Once again, the forthright young vet finds herself trying to catch a killer and restore some peace to her little world - before it's too late. Laura Crum has used her many years of training and showing cowhorses to craft a unique mystery where murder occurs in a world of modern cowboys and working horses.The Power of Logical Thinking: Easy Lessons in the Art of Reasoning... and Hard Facts about Its Absence in Our Lives, Parade Magazine columnist Marilyn vos Savant aims to help people respond to problem situations posed in everyday life with logical solutions, no matter how counterintuitive the answers may seem. One chapter and an appendix in this March title from St. Martin's are devoted to what's called the Monty Hall dilemma, while another section looks at how politicians use our ignorance to get our votes.
Book Details
Published
October 1, 1996
Publisher
St Martins Mass Market Paper
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780312960407