A WOMAN TO BLAME

Mystery & Thrillers

By Vincent Panettiere

Publisher : Author House

ABOUT Vincent Panettiere

Vincent Panettiere
The long and winding road to this moment began as a sports writer for a wire service and Boston daily; meandered through executive positions at CBS and Fox with a foray into writing and selling several unproduced film scripts. Inexplicably  I became a literary agent representing writers a More...

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Description

A thoroughbred race horse collapeses and dies after finishing last in a race he was favored to win. Hours later the stallion's trainer, a young woman with a promising career, is found dead on a suburban Chicago beach.

The police draw a facile solution - murder/suicide. A woman to blame?

Mike Hegan, a veteran police detective being forced to retire on medical disability, refuses to believe the official version. His search for the truth leads him to a promontory on a Caribbean island where scores are settled ande lives lost.

 

A story in the New York times in the late 1970s became the germ of an idea for a film script. The script was not sold and I turned the story into a novel.

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