Avoidable Contact, Tammy Kaehler
Avoidable Contact, Tammy Kaehler
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Avoidable Contact
A Kate Reilly Mystery

Author: Tammy Kaehler

Narrator: Nicole Vilencia

Unabridged: 10 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/08/2015

Synopsis

Racer 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 that 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.

About Tammy Kaehler

Tammy Kaehler is the author of the Kate Reilly Racing Mystery series, which has earned awards from the International Automotive Media Competition and the American Auto Racing Writers and Broadcasters Association.

About Nicole Vilencia

Original, sent from reader: Nicole was born in Southern California and believes oranges, avocados and olives are the holy kitchen trinity.  Just out of high school she became a full-time radio personality and has made a career of intimate conversations with millions of people for 22 years in a variety of formats at radio stations spanning the country.  She has been a student of life but in 2008 enrolled in college for the first time to pursue a degree in teaching because she believes that as the parent of a young child she should be qualified to be her child's first educator.  Nicole has been in a cage with lions and tigers, used to own her own monkey (but lost him in a break up), has walked on 3,000 degree hot coals and believes that life is a verb and is meant to be lived fearlessly.  When she is not rolling dice in Las Vegas, donning a mask for Mardi Gras on the streets of New Orleans or entertaining radio listeners she can be found cooking something incredible in a rambling Ashland, Oregon farmhouse for her daughter "Lolli" and attempting to obedience train her not so mellow dog "Mellow" with limited success.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sherry

Avoidable Contact by Tammy Kaeler is about the twenty four hour Daytona endurance race. Anyone that knows racing, knows that Daytona opens the racing season with a week long celebration. I love Nascar racing, so I was excited to have the opportunity to read for review the ARC of Avoidable Contact. Ka......more

Goodreads review by Michele

I started to read this book without knowing anything about the author’s background. I also did not know that this book was the third in the series. I found that you didn’t need to read the other books in the series before reading this one—this book stands all on its own. It was clear from the beginni......more

Goodreads review by Bash

I love the endurance events on the sports car racing schedule, so the backdrop of this book was very familiar. My focus was on Kate, the un-raveler of mystery as well as racer of cars. Instantly likable, Kate made this a book I could not put down. Finished in 24 hours, just like the race, and lookin......more

Quotes

“Snappy dialogue, a smart and affable heroine, and pacing reminiscent of 24 combine to make this entry as exciting as a spin around the speedway.” Publishers Weekly

“The 24 Hours of Daytona is murder in more ways than one…Kate’s third will be a joy to racing fans hungry for inside dope.” Kirkus Reviews

“This book revs the suspense past 10,000 r.p.m. on the first page and keeps it there until the last. Tammy Kaehler sure-handedly steers readers deep into the world of endurance racing with an entertaining cast of characters. I’d ride shotgun with Kate Reilly any day.” Brad Parks, Shamus Award–winning author

“I have absolutely loved watching how Kate has developed through the first few books and thoroughly enjoyed how close to reality Tammy has made so many of the racing-related storylines that Kate finds herself in. This series always leaves me wanting more, so I cannot wait to keep reading and see what’s next on the horizon for my fellow female racing driver!” Pippa Mann, Indy-car driver

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