A Moment of Madness — Christiane France

Jenny Romano is fairly sure her boyfriend, Steve, has found someone new. But rather than sit around agonizing, she follows him to his lakeside cottage, determined to find out for sure.

Instead of finding Steve in flagrante delicto with a curvy new chick, however, she finds his dead body in the bedroom, and the body of a woman on the patio. Before she can recover from the shock, she's attacked from behind by a man with arms of steel and a body like a mountain, and there's a gun sticking in her ribs.

Convincing her attacker she isn't the killer is easy, once he realizes she's holding a flashlight and not a gun. But then the real killers come back, and Jenny and her new found friend, Andy Mulligan, ex-British Special Forces turned retrieval expert, find themselves outnumbered and on the run.

According to Andy, Steve was trying to dispose of a valuable piece of stolen property that Andy has been trying to locate for months. It's the statue of a golden horse encrusted with diamonds and emeralds that's believed to be of Inca origin and reputedly worth millions. If the killers don't find the statue at the lakeside cottage, they'll be coming after Jenny next.

And Andy is the only person standing between Jenny and what she already knows will be a very unpleasant fate...

Genres: Contemporary / Action / Adventure / Mystery / Detective / Suspense / Thriller