A Pale Horse in Barn Eight »

Gene Cryer spent thirty-eight years as a journalist, the last fifteen before his early retirement as editor/vice president of the Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale, FL. He retired to pursue the passion which originally led him to journalism--writing. While working on his novels, he taught journalism as an adjunct professor at Florida Atlantic University, conducted editing workshops for the Florida Center for the Book and is past president of The Writers' Network of South Florida. Prior to moving to South Florida, he worked as a reporter and editor at several Illinois newspapers. He has been honored as an aoutstanding alumnus of Southern Illinois University and served on the alumni advisory committee for the College of Mass Communication and Media Arts. He has been a Pulitizer juror and is a past president of the Illinois AP Editors Association. As an active horseman, he won a dozen national and world titles in non-pro western pleasure.

When a body is discovered in an empty stall on the opening day of an elite horse show at Jake Ward's farm, there are no signs it's anything but a natural death. But when a second body is unearthed in a shallow grave behind the barn, investigators declare both deaths to be homicides. And, despite a lack of any supporting evidence, target Jake as their only suspect. The pressure intensifies when the lead investigator and a potential witness to the first murder are killed...and Jake's fingerprints are found at both scenes. Jake's desperate search for the real killer unearths intertwined conspiracies that stretch even into his own bedroom.