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A Golf Lover's Mystery #5
Final Fore
At the bucolic Mount Holyoke college, Cassie Burdette is steeling her nerves for the US Open. When a rival is poisoned and she begins receiving strange e-mails and messages, she realizes that high-stakes competition can truly be murder.
- GenresMystery
288 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published March 7, 2006
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Roberta Isleib
11 books52 followersNew Jersey born clinical psychologist Roberta Isleib (who also writes as Lucy Burdette) took up writing mysteries to justify too much bad golf. Her Cassie Burdette series was nominated for an Agatha and two Anthony awards. Her new series debuted in March with DEADLY ADVICE, starring a psychologist/advice columnist. PREACHING TO THE CORPSE will follow in December. Roberta is the president of Sisters in Crime National.
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March 22, 2021
Final Fore by Roberta Isleib finds Cassie in Massachusetts ready for her turn at the US Woman’s Open. What will she do without Laura as her caddie? Who’s sending her threatening emails? How will she handle having all of her families watching? Will she be involved with another murder to solve? Stay tuned, she might just parr this one.
January 31, 2008
Mystery's favorite golfer, Cassie Burdette, is back for another round of fun and suspense in Final Fore. Although Cassie's professional life is moving forward, her personal life has taken two steps back. Cassie and her good friend, golf psychologist Joe Lancaster, are uncomfortably dealing with a horrendous trip to Hawaii, where they hoped to take their relationship further but which ended in disaster. Now, all Cassie wants to concentrate on is competing in the US Open and trying to decide whether or not to accept an invitation to play in the PGA Buick Championship. But from the start, things go awry. Her good friend and favorite caddie, Laura Snow, won't be able to attend due to her father's illness and Cassie's scrambling to find a replacement. If that isn't bad enough, her quirky family is in attendance, along with her sponsor, Lloyd Pompano, who hovers over her, watching everything she eats and every swing she makes.
Shortly before the tournament starts, someone calling himself Ruleswhiz begins to send threatening e-mails to Cassie. The first day of the tournament, teenage golf star Amber Clancy collapses on the course and later dies from poisoning. As the e-mails and threats from Ruleswhiz escalate, Cassie's brother Charlie hires a bodyguard to protect her. When the bodyguard lets it slip he thinks the person threatening her is someone she knows, Cassie becomes more and more paranoid and begins to suspect everyone.
Reading the Cassie Burdette series is simply a fun way to spend one's time. The pace flows nicely, the plot twists and turns with suspense, and Cassie's sense of humor and witty asides bring a lot of smiles. Charming, refreshing, and entertaining, this series leaves the reader anxious for it to continue, although this is the last in the series.
Shortly before the tournament starts, someone calling himself Ruleswhiz begins to send threatening e-mails to Cassie. The first day of the tournament, teenage golf star Amber Clancy collapses on the course and later dies from poisoning. As the e-mails and threats from Ruleswhiz escalate, Cassie's brother Charlie hires a bodyguard to protect her. When the bodyguard lets it slip he thinks the person threatening her is someone she knows, Cassie becomes more and more paranoid and begins to suspect everyone.
Reading the Cassie Burdette series is simply a fun way to spend one's time. The pace flows nicely, the plot twists and turns with suspense, and Cassie's sense of humor and witty asides bring a lot of smiles. Charming, refreshing, and entertaining, this series leaves the reader anxious for it to continue, although this is the last in the series.
April 11, 2012
Lightweight but fun mystery, but probably not good for people who don't play or at least enjoy golf to some degree. Part of what makes this a little more interesting than the mystery is worth is the insights into the life of an aspiring pro golfer, so if that doesn't float your boat the book itself isn't going to do much for you.
Cassie Burdette is the classic accidental detective: no training, no intent, but just sort of stumbles into these sorts of mysteries Miss Marple-style, and those are a nice break from the hard-boiled detective stuff I've been reading lately. This one is pretty fluffy: mayhem ensues at Cassie's first shot at the LPGA U.S. Open, sort through the suspects, oh god drama at the end. But it doesn't pretend to be anything other than it is, and the beezy tone works for the most part. Cassie Burdette may be a bit of an neurotic mess, but there's no real ill-will in her, which makes her fairly easy to root for.
Cassie Burdette is the classic accidental detective: no training, no intent, but just sort of stumbles into these sorts of mysteries Miss Marple-style, and those are a nice break from the hard-boiled detective stuff I've been reading lately. This one is pretty fluffy: mayhem ensues at Cassie's first shot at the LPGA U.S. Open, sort through the suspects, oh god drama at the end. But it doesn't pretend to be anything other than it is, and the beezy tone works for the most part. Cassie Burdette may be a bit of an neurotic mess, but there's no real ill-will in her, which makes her fairly easy to root for.
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