"Exciting sports crime thriller"
Her first year in the LPGA was terrible and she didn't
make the cut so Cassie Burdette takes a job as the touring
pro at the Stony Creek Country Club. In addition, to
having free room and a paying job, she can practice on the
club's golf course whenever she has free time. Further
sweetening the deal, she can take time off to play in LPGA
tournaments and try to make the qualifying cut for the
events. On her first day on the job, she is ordered to attend the
board of director's meeting where member Brad Latham wants
the club to have Audobon Sanctuary Certification while
Elizabeth Weigel wants women accorded the same privileges
as the male members. Both people stir up a lot of
resentment because they are disturbing the status quo.
The next day on the golf course, Cassie finds Brad's body
on the golf course. A few days later, a club employees
digs up Elizabeth's murdered body. Cassie thinks there is
a link between the two homicides and she looks to find it
and by doing so she double bogies her life in danger. Sports fans and amateur sleuth lovers will want to read
PUTT TO DEATH, an exciting crime thriller that gives
readers a thorough education on the world of golf.
Readers also get a feel for what an exclusive country club
is like especially the in politics and petty resentments.
The heroine is obsessed with obtaining eagles, but that
does not stop her from seeking justice. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted March 10, 2004
SummaryCassie takes a temporary job as a touring pro at an
exclusive New England country club. Asked to fill in at
the board of directors meeting on her first night, Cassie
soon learns that environmentalists are considered fanatics
and that women are struggling with the old boys network
for parity on the golf course. When one of the club
members is found murdered, Cassie realizes that more than
golf privileges and bird houses must be at stake.
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