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Tammy Kaehler

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Værker af Tammy Kaehler

Dead Man's Switch (2011) 29 eksemplarer
Avoidable Contact (2014) 6 eksemplarer
Red Flags (2016) 5 eksemplarer
Braking Points (2013) 4 eksemplarer
Kiss the Bricks (2017) 2 eksemplarer

Associated Works

Writes of Passage: Adventures on the Writer's Journey (2014) — Bidragyder — 17 eksemplarer

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Digital audiobook read by Nicole Vilencia
3***

From the book jacket: Aspiring race-car driver Kate Reilly goes looking for a full-time ride in the American Le Mans Series – and stumbles over a dead driver. When she takes that driver’s job just hours later, she also takes pole position on the list of suspects in his murder. Suddenly she’s in the hot seat with little time to clear her name or get ready to race a Corvette at lime Rock Park. … Kate finds exhilaration and hazards exist on – and off – the track as she throttles up both the Corvette’s V8 and a murder investigation…

My reactions:
This was a fun, fast read that taught me a bit about racing.

I liked Kate as a lead character. She’s intelligent, prepared, determined, skilled and strong. I liked the way she thought through the scraps of information she collected to arrive at her conclusions. I also really liked her focus on the job at hand – driving that Corvette as part of a team. I’m not likely to continue the series, as the basic premise just doesn’t interest me that much.

However, I was tickled when Road America was mentioned, as I’ve visited that track about an hour north of Milwaukee, to watch the races a few times. (One of my husband’s friends races his Porsche there.)
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BookConcierge | 2 andre anmeldelser | Oct 30, 2020 |
You don’t need to be an Indy 500 enthusiast in order to enjoy reading this newest from Tammy Kaehler. The subject matter adds to the story. The story itself is the intriguing hook—dead body, unsolved old crime and a threat to her winning the race. Kate Reilly gets up to speed and passes those in her way in this fifth book of the series.
Nicely plotted. Never a dull sentence. Kaehler is someone to keep on your reading list.
 
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DJadamson | 1 anden anmeldelse | Jan 4, 2018 |
Heh. The Acknowldgements were cool. And for the most part so was the rest of the novel as well.

Kate is racing at the Indy 500 again. Of course, it's not as easy peasy as that, or it would be a boring book.

What happens is that Kate is the fastest car in the very first practice for Indy that year and suddenly she's being compared to another woman, PJ, who did that feat as well, but then ten days later PJ killed herself.

Except, PJ's family doesn't believe that PJ committed suicide. Instead they think it was murder. And of course they've heard about what Kate has done at other races, solving crimes, and so they want her to investigate too.

As the readers we get three things. We get a story at the Indy 500 in 1989 with PJ in it, and we also get the present day story with Kate preparing for her Indy 500. And of course, the third part of the story is Kate trying in her own way to investigate whether PJ dying was a suicide or murder.

The racing stuff (both in the present and the past) was awesome as usual, and I even liked the tiny bit of romantic subplot that was in the book too.

It was a very 'settled' book. For once the mystery didn't directly involve Kate and the drama with her family wasn't at the center of everything for this book either which was very nice. (From stuff in this book I have no doubt that they'll be back in the next book). But, for this book it was a nice, regular sort of mystery. Awesome!

I got this ARC through Netgalley on behalf of Poisoned Pen Press.
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DanieXJ | 1 anden anmeldelse | May 5, 2017 |
There is very little subtly to the beginning of this fourth in the Kate Reilly mysteries. We jump right into the murder. She's at the Grand Prix of Long Beach and at the very start of the novel she's IDing the body of her cousin Billy.

That gets her in the middle of yet another murder investigation. She gets asked by not only some of the people in charge of the race, but also by her new sponsor Frame Savings, to "Look into" who could have killed Billy.

Frame Savings is not only Kate's new sponsor, but her estranged father is also the head of the bank. And so soon it's all mixed up. And at the same time that she's dealing with the murder and mayhem, she also has to race her team's Corvette, and in this novel she also gets to test on a different car, and... she's a coach for the Celebrity race too. Kate has many, many things going on in this novel for sure.

Needless to say it was a non-stop novel not just for Kate, but also for the reader. A lot of mystery, a little bit of a love triangle (sort of maybe?) And as usual the stuff that I loved the most were all the in car (and some track side while she was coaching her celebrity) racing stuff. I think it's what makes this series so very, very unique and keeps me coming back book after book!

I got this galley through Netgalley on behalf of Poisoned Pen Press.
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DanieXJ | Apr 5, 2016 |

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