Driven to Murder

By Judith Skillings

There aren't many women in professional auto racing -- but that didn't stop Rebecca Moore from joining driver Ian Browning's pit crew. A former reporter and classic car restorer, Rebecca's love of fast cars and mastery of all things automotive have enticed her to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the most famous track in the world. Working pit lane, her innate toughness shields her from the taunts and insults being tossed her way. But the bullet that whizzes past her head, shattering the windshield of the vintage race car in her care, can't be as easily ignored -- nor can the body she finds in the cockpit the day before the race. Once again, Rebecca's forced to uncover a killer. But the deadly secrets awaiting her -- the blind, vengeful hatred that spans decades -- threaten to make this high-speed lap Rebecca's last.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060583207
• ISBN13: 9780060583200
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Avon Books
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.2" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

Antique Cars

This book by Judith Skillings and her other three that I've been asked to review are extremely well written mystery stories involving classic automobiles. Anybody with an interest in classic cars and well written mystery stories would love her books.

enthralling mystery

Rebecca Monroe own Vintage & Classics, a car restoration shop in Head Tide, Maryland, which is the prime reason Racer Peyton Madison's chief mechanic hires as part of the crew in the open-wheel race at Indianapolis. She is glad to get away from home after learning the people who raised her aren't her biological parents and she has a grandmother she knows nothing about. Being at Indie is a dream comes true for Rebecca who loves driving vehicles from the sixties, seventies, and eighties. The dream turns into a nightmare when a rash of accidents happen including a cut break-line, watered gas and stripped lug nuts occur. The car originally supposed to race is so torn up that Peyton replaces that car with the more expensive and glamorous Lotus 49C. Rebecca is positive that the accidents were really sabotage in disguise; her assertion is confirmed when someone shoots at them hitting the windshield. Needing the money and not wanting any negative publicity, Peyton refuses to call the police, a decision that will cost him when the saboteur comes after him. Rebecca is determined to find out who the criminal is and why Peyton is the target; a choice that puts the life of an innocent child, who attached herself to Rebecca, in danger. In DRIVEN TO MURDER, Judith Skillings provides a racing mystery that is complex and cleverly constructed with so more crossroads readers won't know which path is the right one. The protagonist charges into danger knowing doing nothing will not make things safer. Rebecca is spunky, kind and independent, which brings her the affections of two very different men. Readers will thoroughly enjoy this enthralling mystery. Harriet Klausner