Marla Mesconti Mystery

Marla Mesconti, amateur sleuth and top-notch horse trainer, has stepped into it deep. While attempting to help the Manchester Mounted Police Department find an appropriate horse for their program, she inadvertently becomes the prime suspect in a murder. Her friend, Jay, comes along to help her confront the bait-and-switch dealer. When Marla gets in over her head, Jay calls in her long-time friend Rick Wassel from New York City to help. As the mystery unfolds from the hills of New Hampshire to the forests of New York, Marla and her crew help solve the murder and uncover the real identity of the horse that was purchased by the Department. Rick and Marla's budding romance takes a step up in this second book of the Marla Mesconti Mystery Series. Be sure to read Ritzforg 127, book #1, to get to know and love the characters of these twisty mysteries.

Third in the Marla Mesconti Mystery series, this book tells the tale of Gwenonwyn of Aileen, or "Layla", as she's called, a rare-colored buckskin Gypsy horse. Layla loses her rider on an organized trail ride when a camouflaged hunter steps out from behind a tree. Layla is nowhere to be found, but soon, Marla is called in to help when Layla is found in a pond miles away from the ride. The story unfolds in the hills of New Hampshire and takes Marla and her crew to the green mountains of Vermont to find the killer. Rick Wassel, her police-force boyfriend, takes the case for the NH State Police and vows to find the person responsible for the demise of Beth Amesby's beautiful, gentle Layla.

Marla Mesconti is a fair-haired horse trainer for her Reach For The Stars Stables in Andover, NH. She finds her mentor and best friend dead in his tack room at Brandywine Farm. The same farm that had a prized Friesian stallion stolen from a local horse show. The local PD is not helpful at all in finding the stolen horse and immediately shelves the case. The apparent murder of her friend and the lost horse that meant so much to him is more than Marla can take sitting down. She and her friends at her farm gather up the clues that the PD cannot seem to find and starts the investigation that will take her to Louisville, Kentucky and back. Travel the world of show horses as the mystery unwinds.