Amber Camp won great reviews for her charming debut, Canter with a Killer, about a woman who starts over and opens a horse rescue in her hometown – only to be accused of murdering her cranky neighbor. Now she has to solve the crime to prove her innocence, and she just might fall for the victim’s hunky son in the process. Seattle Book Review called it “a must-read debut with a lot of personality,” and Kings River Life Magazine called it “a great beginning to a new series.”
The series continues in Camp’s sequel Trotting into Trouble, which Red Carpet Crash called “[a]nother winner.”
Camp was kind enough to share her query for Canter with a Killer (originally titled The Horse Whispered Murder):
Dear [Agent],
I am contacting you because according to your agency’s website, you’re actively seeking cozy mysteries. My cozy mystery, THE HORSE WHISPERED MURDER is complete at 67,000 words. It will appeal to readers of Eileen Brady’s SADDLED WITH MURDER and V.M. Burns’ BOOKMARKED FOR MURDER.
Mallory Martin left her marriage and her unfulfilling job as a legal nurse consultant to move back to her hometown of Hillspring, AR and start a horse rescue. It’s everything she had been missing, with paddocks of happy horses and one very quirky donkey. It would be perfect if she could just secure consistent funding. But just as she launches a plan to generate some steady income for the rescue, her cantankerous neighbor and longtime critic is found murdered in his fancy show barn.
When evidence is found that implicates Mallory, she becomes suspect number one. Since the sheriff is ignoring all good sense and focusing only on her, she decides to take matters into her own hands and find the real killer. But a new attraction to an old crush and the reappearance of her ex-husband threaten to derail her investigation. If Mallory can’t uncover the true killer, she stands to lose her rescue, her beloved animals, and maybe even her freedom.
This will be my debut novel. It is a standalone story with strong series potential. I live in rural Arkansas where I have been a nurse for twenty years. I’ve raised and trained horses my entire life.
Thank you for your consideration,
Amber Camp
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