That Summer

September 15, 2003
Anne Foster, a successful equine veterinarian, returns home to bury her father and is immediately drawn into the re-opening of a ten-year-old scandal centering on her childhood friend Liam. Told in a chatty first-person style, with flashbacks to the summer when young, beautiful, rich, and spoiled Leslie Bartholomew disappeared, Wolf's plot revolves around contemporary Virginia horse society: the races, the parties, and the realities of breeding and training champions. Liam, son of a senator and the manager of his father's Wellington Farm, was one of the three young men initially suspected of Leslie's murder. Now he owns a potential Triple Crown winner named Someday Soon, and Wolf skillfully combines the excitement of the racing season with the intrigue of society, politics, and a murder mystery. Fast-paced, with seething undercurrents of passion, ambition, and grief, and an enigmatic ending that may presage a series in the making, Wolf's latest exemplifies the popular new breed of cozy romantic suspense.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2003, American Library Association.)