ROPED
by Laura Crum
Roped ($22.95; Sept. 11; 240 pp.; 0-312-19325-4): Warning for horse-lovers: Equine casualties outnumber the human kind when veterinarian Gail McCarthy, in her fourth case (Roughstock, 1997, etc.), looks into her school friend Lisa Bennett’s fears that a series of accidents to horses entered in roping events aren’t so accidental.