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Pony Girls

Richard Hoyt. Forge, $24.95 (268pp) ISBN 978-0-7653-0616-6

Richard Hoyt's Pony Girls: A John Denson Mystery, the ninth in the series (after 2003's The Weatherman's Daughter), mixes myth, metaphor and mystery, with sometimes confusing results. PI Denson investigates the deaths of more than 20 Spanish mustangs spread over a large area of the Western U.S. He also engages in a cosmic battle of good vs. evil that may or may not be metaphoric. Agent, Jacques de Spoelberch.