The cart before the corpse

Hitch your imagination to the Merry Abbott Carriage-Driving Series, set in the world of competitive carriage driving - an elegant yet cut-throat realm in which gorgeously costumed drivers and their magnificently harnessed horses vie for championships. A jealous woman? A rival trainer? Or one of his deceptively down-home Mossy Creek neighbors? Someone took famed horseman Hiram Lackland for his last carriage ride, and now it's up to his daughter Merry Abbott, to pin the tail on the right donkey, crime-wise.