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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | | | | In this ninth book in the Gail McCarthy series about the Santa Cruz vet, Gail is pregnant and taking a leave of absence from her work as a horse vet. Despite her intention to rest and prepare for her baby, she is drawn into the odd situation surrounding her cousin Jenny, who claims she is being stalked. Jenny hints at nefarious dealings in her past as a racehorse trainer, and accidents seem to happen with astonishing frequency at her thoroughbred farm. As Jenny’s only relative and friend, Gail wants to support her cousin, but can’t sort out truth from fiction as she tries to discover who the stalker (and eventual killer) might be: Jenny’s ex-husband, her former lover, his wife, or an unscrupulous player on the racetrack scene? As the accidents become more serious, Gail’s concern becomes desperate and personal, leading her to a dark confrontation where she must use all her wits to survive. With much accurate detail about horses, this is a winning combination of a truly gripping story and a big life change for the popular protagonist. Moonblind opens a reader’s eyes ... Sometimes a mystery novel is more than simply Whodunit; in Laura Crum’s latest, the "Why" of the act is equally compelling, and the story’s "Where" becomes more of a character than merely its setting. -- Laurie R. King, author of Locked Rooms Crum’s writing is lyrical, her plotting is fresh, and her characters come to life on the page. I’ll saddle up and ride along with Gail McCarthy any time. -- Laurien Berenson, author of Raining Cats and Dogs | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Laura Crum | | Paperback: | 189 pages | | Publisher: | Perseverance Press | | Publication Date: | September 15, 2006 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 1880284901 | | Package Length: | 8.3 inches | | Package Width: | 5.5 inches | | Package Height: | 0.6 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.6 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 6 reviews |
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1 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 A big change in store. Aug 19, 2007
Gail McCarthy is hugely pregnant, and no longer a practicing vet. It shows, there is little to say about Moonblindness as a horse ailment everything is constantly focused on Gail's gravid belly and swollen ankles. In previous books the reader is treated to an excellent view into the horse world and ownership. In this book you are treated to constant reminders of the pregnancy of Gail. If you are looking for the usual mix of vet anecdotes, knowledge and murder mystery, this book isn't it. Sorry to say this but pregnancy and murders don't mix. Now if the book had been titled "Pregnant and helping to solve a mystery," it would have been less deceiving than to call it a Gail McCarthy vet mystery.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Book on Pregnancy, not Horses May 21, 2007
I agree totally with Karen Kimmerly's review. If I wanted to read a book on being pregnant, I would have bought one. All Gail's communing with her unborn child became boring and nauseating. (And, yes, I'm a mother and certainly have no problem with someone being pregnant.) I read Laura Crum because she is one of the very best horse mystery writers I've ever read. This book didn't even get into anything about horses and/or a mystery until shortly after page 100. It just dragged on. And on. It was also a very depressing book. Animals dying. Animals being sick. Animals having incurable problems. And the dead mare and foal were completely unnecessary to the story - except, of course, to tie into Gail's pregnancy.
Basically, in case you haven't figured it out yet, I found this to be a very poor example of a tremendously talented writer. Please, Laura Crum, don't make your next book all about motherhood and Baby Mac. Please get back to horses and that wonderful, multi-dimensional character, Dr. Gail McCarthy. Please.
2 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 Moonblind Nov 09, 2006
Book was well written and moved along nicely. I was impressed with how well the author researced the medical terms and conditions.
2 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 horses and intrigues Nov 05, 2006
As usual Gail writes a good story. This time the vets pregnancy is prominent in the picture and the story is more personal then usual but nevertheless the describtions are vivid, the story and its development is clearly written. This time the solution is Agatha Christy like but who cares.
2 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Both the horses and the mystery are missing Sep 26, 2006
I've given all of the previous Gail McCarthy mysteries five stars. It pains me to give this one only two, but that's what it deserves.
Usually I read these in one sitting, but by about page 70 I was wondering if I really wanted to finish it. Interestingly, that's about the point where Gail asks herself if she was "losing the person she had been". The answer is a resounding yes - in this book Gail is a self-absorbed one-dimensional, even boring, character. In fact, Gail is not even the main character in the story - her pregnancy is. It became a game as I read to see if there would be any pages that didn't mention the pregnancy. There were a few, but not many. This is supposed to be a mystery, not chicklit!
I would imagine that many of Crum's readers are horsepeople who are starved for good adult horse-related fiction, especially of the Western variety. They will be disappointed as the horses play a very marginal role; almost as if they were no longer part of Gail's life. There is also very little mystery here - the "event" doesn't happen until nearly two-thirds of the way through and it's pretty clear whodunit. The book is 90% pregnancy, 5% horses and 5% plot.
All that being said, given the fact that all of the rest of the books in this series are so good I really believe that this one is just a blip and the author is perfectly capable of pulling out of the slump. She just needs to let Gail get back to the things she's best at - practicing equine veterinary medicine and solving mysteries.
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