Vendor
	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Sebastian Ritscher
Original language
English
Categories
Thriller / suspense fiction

GIRLS AND THEIR HORSES

Eliza Jane Brazier

Set in the glamorous, competitive world of showjumping, a novel about the girls who ride, their cutthroat mothers, and a suspicious death at a horse show... from the author of Good Rich People.

When the nouveau riche Parker family moves to an exclusive community in the heart of Southern California, they believe it's their chance at a fresh start. Heather Parker is determined to give her daughters the life she never had - starting with horses.

She signs them up for riding lessons at Rancho Santa Fe Equestrian, where horses are a lifestyle. Heather becomes a "Barn Mom," part of a group of wealthy women who hang at the stables, drink wine, and prepare their daughters for competition.

It's not long before the Parker family is fully enmeshed in the horse world - from mean girl cliques to barn romances and dark secrets. With the end of summer horse show fast approaching, the pressure is on, and these mothers will stop at nothing to give their daughters everything they deserve.

Before the summer is over, lies will turn lethal, accidents will happen, and someone will end up dead.

Eliza Jane Brazier is an author, screenwriter, and journalist. Eliza entered the horse world at the age of 5 and has worked as a rider, horse trainer and riding instructor. She currently lives in California with her horse and dogs, where she is developing her books for television.

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Book Published 2023-06-06 by Berkley

Comments

This recommended, well-written suspense poses questions about the cost of parents living vicariously through their children. Read more...

Horse mothers put stage mothers to shame in this wildly entertaining thriller. Read more...

With stylish, incisive prose and laser-sharp commentary, this is a story that will draw readers in and hold them completely under its hypnotic spell... a reading experience as powerful, beautiful, and unsettling as the horses at its core.

Tensions have always run high in the elite (and usually, rich) equestrian world. Girls and Their Horses dials up the intrigue by several degrees, embedding a new-money family into an insular and highly competitive horseback riding community - where deceit, romance, and even murder aren't out of the question in pursuit of a blue ribbon.

Does for horse girls what Megan Abbott's Dare Me did for cheerleaders... A powerful, searing novel of hierarchy, desire, and desperation, told by a brilliant storyteller unafraid to take risks.

Deliciously full of soapy, simmering tension, manipulation, toxic female friendships, wealthy power dynamics and backstabbing a plenty... it's Big Little Lies meets Dallas, but even lustier and laced with Brazier's pitch-black humor. I couldn't put it down!

Dark and deliciously twisted, this is the thriller of my equestrian dreams... or nightmares. You'll never look at horse girls the same way.

At turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Girls and Their Horses has Brazier's razor sharp insight and blistering social commentary, combined with a plot so subtly tense you'll hold your breath for whole chapters.

A wickedly delicious deep dive into the world of horse-crazy girls, whiskey-soaked barn parties, and high- octane show-jumping circuits... But the cutthroat competition turns lethal when a corpse turns up at the summer show, and both mother and daughters must wrestle with what's truly important... a fabulous ride!