Aggie convinces Sam and Meredith to share her dude ranch vacation. When an expert rider flies off a horse and lies in a coma, Aggie thinks somebody caused the fall. Despite Sam’s warnings, she probes past ranch murders and concocts ingenious sleuthing methods that strain her dicey relationship with Sam. When she scatters a hornet’s nest of cowboys, she finds more than one hombre in the bunch who'd like to see her permanently "Home on the Range."

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Author Nancy G. West says:

Aggie Mundeen and Detective Sam, despite their dicey relationship and baggage from the past, grow closer with each book. Their relationship accelerates in Smart, But Dead (released 2015) despite drawbacks and danger. Should they marry, live together, or decide it's safer to simply be friends and work occasionally as colleagues?