The Doubletree kids are thrilled about a trip to Las Vegas to see the Olympic Trials. They did not expect to solve a murder.
While attending the Olympic Trials in Las Vegas, the Doubletree team witnesses a horrific accident that takes one of the top riders in the country out of contention permanently. The police call it an accident, but the kids know better after viewing a tape of the fatal ride. The cops don't believe them, chalking their story up to overactive imaginations.
The following day, the drugging and subsequent disqualification of a high-ranked jumper, owned by the son of the local Mafia boss, knocks another team out of the running, and the kids wonder if there might be a connection between the two events. Determined to solve both mysteries, they go sleuthing and quickly become the target of two underground thugs. When the gangsters realize the kids are much closer to the truth than they know, they take drastic action.
The kids continue to dig and what they turn up spotlights a part of the horse show world they never knew existed and exposes them to gangsters with nothing to lose.
Riding High is action-packed with exciting and accurately portrayed show scenes, quirky, delightful characters and a story that keeps the reader on the edge of their seat to the end.