Just finished my latest equine mystery, “Commander Speaks,” and I’m looking for equine bloggers who might want to review it. Please drop me a note at boomerversebooks@gmail.com
Here’s the gist:
Commander, a German show jumper recently imported to the U.S. for a successful mystery writer, won’t stop biting his new owner. She hires an animal communicator to talk to Commander to find out why he’s biting. That’s an easy fix. Not so easy to fix are the crimes Commander is witnessing at his barn, crimes that he insists be stopped immediately.
This unlikely trio – the horse, the animal communicator and the mystery writer – sets out to solve the murder of one of America’s most despicable horse trainers, who has an eye for underage girls, and save a groom wrongly accused of drugging a horse.
“Commander Speaks” is mostly a funny look at the Hunter/Jumper world. How could a book starring a talking horse with large opinions and an even bigger heart be anything but humorous? However, the humor stops when Commander and his crew take a hard look at predatory behavior in equine sports.
I am the author of “Horse of a Different Killer,” “Chestnut Mare, Beware,” and “In Colt Blood” – featured in People Magazine as a Pick of the Week, nominated for an Agatha award and translated worldwide. As a feature writer for the Charlotte Observer, I was on the team that won the Gold Medal Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
thanks
Jody
