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    Avoidable Contact

    By Tammy Kaehler

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    Racecar driver Kate Reilly is suited up and ready for the start of the legendary 24 Hours of Daytona. But what lies ahead is not just a racing challenge but a harrowing test of her will and nerve off the course.

    Even before the green flag waves over Daytona International Speedway, Kate receives word her boyfriend Stuart is hospitalized nearby in a coma, fighting for his life after a hit-and-run. Stunned by the news, Kate can do nothing better for Stuart than complete her scheduled laps driving her team's car. But more shocks follow as Daytona's clock starts ticking. An on-track accident ends tragically. Some of her complicated family is spotted with other teams—why? And an eyewitness claims Stuart was run down deliberately by someone from the race paddock.

    Alternating stints behind the wheel of the team's Corvette with stretches of quizzing colleagues and searching for clues, Kate circles the police and taps every possible source—friend, foe, and family—to find out who's after Stuart and why. As the race clock counts down to zero hour, Kate must come to terms with her own fears rising from her past and decide who she's willing to trust. Only then can she identify who's willing to kill to keep a secret buried.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSourcebooks
    Release dateAug 12, 2014
    ISBN9781464202391
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    Tammy Kaehler

    When Tammy Kaehler discovered the racing world, she was hooked by the contrast between its top-dollar, high-drama competition, and friendly, family atmosphere. Mystery fans and racing insiders alike have praised her award-winning Kate Reilly Mystery Series (Dead Man's Switch, Braking Points, Avoidable Contact, and Red Flags), and Tammy takes readers back behind the wheel in her fifth entry, Kiss the Bricks. She works as a freelance writer in Southern California, where she lives with her husband and many cars.

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    • 4/5
      4 STARS This is the third book in the series. I have not read the first two. I have never watched a car race so I was new to the world of racing too. But I liked this cozy mystery. It was full of cars, characters, drama and action. It is also a fast paced book it all takes place with a little over 24 hours. Kate Reilly is a driver on Daytona 500. Kate is having a bad start to a important day. It gets worse too. Kate had a fight with her boyfriend Stuart and someone run him down in a hit and run accident. He is in bad shape. Kate has a bunch of relatives that she had met 3 months ago. Some of them hate her. Kate got a phone text from Stuart while he was in a coma. Saying it was not a accident. Someone had tried to kill him. They tried to kill the texter the night before. Stuart was going to meet him this morning. He wants her help proving who hit Stuart. Kate showed the police the texts and was planning to keep showing them to the police. Now I did not realize that for Daytona they had multiple drivers for the same car and goes for 24 hours. Plus their are different classes of cars in the race at same time. So there is lot of race talking and racing. While Kate is not driving she is trying to find out more information about different teams around her. It would be hard to close off emotions and driving in such a important crowded race. Plus other events happen to add to the emotional toil. You do know of the teams that have had something to do with the accident. But not all of it. Makes me want to watch a race or two to see if as much drama as this race was. The setting is Daytona race track in Florida. I was given this ebook to read so I could give my honest opinion and be part of its blog tour.
    • 4/5
      While I am not a car-racing fan, I found Avoidable Contact very exciting and gripping. I expect it would be even more so for racing fans!Although not someone who has ever watched a car race, I do love to read novels, especially mysteries, set in worlds previously unknown to me. This was a very satisfying example.Both the characters and the plot were well-drawn and plausible, and the racing atmosphere was very compelling. Also, if i ever do watch a car race, I will know a lot more of what's going on. Author Tammy Kaehler is informative, without bogging the story down in too much background information -- and that's tricky.I'd mostly recommend this to car race fans, but it's a solid mystery for everyone, with a lot of nuance.I received this book in exchange for an objective review from Rambles.net.