4MA(link is external) participants setup a number of challenges during the year - the one I'm joining in on at the moment is "Read Your Name - by Author" - which I'm not going to be able to pull off in a month - but will try to run over the year, with the twist that I'm trying to make sure that each entrant is an Australian or NZ author. Needless to say it's times like this that I wish my father's surname had been a tad shorter.
From the Blurb:
When Dr Caitlin Summerfield took the message, her satisfying life included a rich sexy boyfriend, an exciting career and best of all, she was free of the emotional maelstrom that characterised her disastrous relationship with her mother.
Opening Lines:
The phone call ended seven years of exile, but was a catalyst for murder.
The phone call ended seven years of exile, but was a catalyst for murder . . .
When Dr Caitlin Summerfield took the message, her satisfying life included a rich, sexy boyfriend, an exciting career and, best of all, she was free of the emotional maelstrom that characterised her disastrous relationship with her mother.
Her father and brother are both long dead, and reluctantly Caitlin returns home when her mother is left in a coma after a riding accident. Someone has to look after her mother′s horses. But instead of the well-run training business she expects, she finds financial chaos and a dangerous mystery.
As the tension mounts, Caitlin begins to realise her mother′s accident was something far more sinister. Bold Blood, a fast-paced contemporary crime novel set within the world of horses and eventing, is a compelling and powerful debut novel for an exciting and talented writer.