PORT HADLOCK — Quilcene author and private investigator Leigh Hearon will read about a murder and a protagonist with a horse ranch at 6:30 p.m. July 13.
The free talk will be at the Jefferson County Library at 620 Cedar Ave.
Hearon will read from her first book, Reining in Murder: A Carson Stables Mystery, as well as her upcoming sequel, Saddle Up for Murder.
The plot of the first book has horse trainer Annie Carson rescuing a thoroughbred from a roadside rollover in which the driver dies.
Story synopsis
After rehabilitating the injured animal at her Carson Stables ranch, Carson delivers the horse to Hilda Colbert, the thoroughbred’s owner, only to find that she is dead, too.
Two deaths in three days is unheard of in the small Olympic Peninsula county, and Carson decides to start sniffing around.
Hearon began her own private investigator agency, Leigh Hearon Investigative Services, in 1992.
Her cases have appeared on “In the Dead of the Night,” “Forensic Files,” “48 Hours,” “Court TV,” “City Confidential,” “Unsolved Mysteries,” “America’s Most Wanted” and “Evening with Connie Chung.”
55-acre farm
Hearon was an avid rider of horses throughout her childhood. She currently has a saddlebred mare, Jolie Jeune Femme, and enjoys watching two rescue mares cavort on a 55-acre farm she shares with her husband.
She is serving her second term on the Jefferson County Library board.
For more information, see www.jclibrary.info or call 360-385-6544.
