A review by slferg
Hunt with the Hounds by Mignon G. Eberhart

4.0

I rather like this author. Read her Susan Dare mystery book. This one is good, also. There is a murder trial, and the main witness for the defense swears she saw the killer in his car out in front of the house at the time the murder was committed, even tho the victim says he shot her and all the evidence points that way. The killer is cleared. He thinks she must be in love with him and keeps saying they're engaged, etc. which she denies. She finally convinces him she does not love him and has no intention of marrying him. Then strange accidents start to befall her. A shot barely misses her as she stands on the front porch. Someone apparently thinks she knows something about the killing. A good friend is in love with her and wants to marry her; she finally realizes she is in love with him - not the defendant (whom she never thought she was in love with, just flattered at his attention). He tries to help her solve the mystery, even though she is the next obvious suspect as murderer. A state policeman wants to arrest her immediately and arraign her for the murder, but the local sheriff (an old friend of the family) tries to stall him. Then she discovers the beloved doctor has been killed. Her brother has heard someone talking to him shortly before he is killed, but not loudly enough to recognize the voice of the killer. After several narrow escapes from death, and going over and over the evidence with friends who are just now admitting to some things they knew about the murdered woman [she was definitely NOT a nice person, although neither was her killer], certain things begin to fall into place.