The Hacker Golf Mysteries
Mark Twain once said, “Golf is a good walk spoiled.” Especially if you get murdered.
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Award-winning author James Y. Bartlett’s series is a great walk inside the ropes and behind the scenes of modern American golf combined with exciting murder mysteries.
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Written from the point of view of Pete Hacker, a former Tour pro turned golf writer for a Boston newspaper, these books follow Hacker as he covers the Tour. Someone gets murdered and he has to solve the crime before the back nine on Sunday!
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The series really tees off with the third book, Death at the Member Guest, which introduces the recurring characters and ongoing plot lines that follow through the rest. The first two novels in the series, originally published by St. Martin’s Press, are a little dated, but still fun.
Death is a
Two-Stroke Penalty
Book 1 in the
Hacker Golf Mystery Series
The novel that introduced golf writer and sleuth Pete Hacker. Covering a Tour event near Charleston, South Carolina, Hacker befriends a young up-and-coming pro. But when the man is found dead, Hacker has to dig through a cast of characters that includes a beautiful young golf groupie, a drug-dealing caddie and a strange Bible-thumping chaplain. And soon, Hacker’s own life is in danger!
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Death from
the Ladies Tee
Book 2 in the
Hacker Golf Mystery Series
Who said girls always play nice? Doing a favor for an old friend, Hacker agrees to cover an LPGA event in Miami. There, he finds that one of the Tour's stars holds an unhealthy degree of control over the Tour and its players. When he begins to dig in, bodies turn up everywhere and his own life is threatened before the explosive final round!
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Death at the
Member-Guest
Book 3 in the
Hacker Golf Mystery Series
When a friend invites Hacker to a long weekend of fun at a private country club outside Boston, he leaps at the chance. But a body turns up in the cart barn, and Hacker spends most of the tournament trying to figure out who had the motive and opportunity to do the evil deed. Even the Boston mob gets involved in this case!
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Death in a Green Jacket
Book 4 in the
Hacker Golf Mystery Series
Ahh...the Masters! Golf's most prestigious title. The harbinger of springtime.
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But this year, they find a body in a bunker on the 10th fairway at Augusta National and when Hacker and the rest of the golfing world arrive, there's a mad chase to find a drug cartel assassin who may or may not have a connection with the club.
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Talk about a drama filled back nine! This is a Masters unlike any other!
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Death from the
Claret Jug
Book 5 in the
Hacker Golf Mystery Series
It’s Open season in St. Andrews …duck!
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Hacker and Mary Jane are in Scotland for the Open at St. Andrews. But a dead golf official sets off a chain reaction, with Russian mobsters, stuffy aristocrats, Mi5, an alcoholic caddie, an anti-golf professor and even a flamboyant American developer creating a Royal & Ancient mystery for the ages!
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An Open Case of Death
Book 6 in the
Hacker Golf Mystery Series
There oughta be a rule against…murder!
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Change is in the air as the U.S. Open returns to bucolic Pebble Beach on the Monterey Peninsula.
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Newly married and just laid off, Hacker finds the celebrity owners of the Lodge at Pebble Beach fighting a corporate succession battle. And when a young assistant pro drives his cart off the cliff on the eighth hole, things start to get very serious.
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As usual, Hacker has to avoid danger, uncover the truth, and watch the U.S. Golf Association make the golf course as difficult as possible. Does that include making it deadly, too?
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P.G.A. Spells Death
Book 7 in the
Hacker Golf Mystery Series
Golf writer Hacker is now TV golf broadcaster Hacker with a sweet new gig on a national network. He has to learn the ins and outs of televising golf, and how to deal with the hyper-intense executive producer and director, Ben ‘the Assassin’ Oswald, as they get ready to broadcast the PGA Championship, staged at international developer Conrad Gold’s luxury club in upstate New York.
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And then the bodies begin to pile up. First is a fellow announcer on the crew, then the assistant to Oswald in the control room. So as Hacker trades quips in the booth with Billy Joe ‘the Boz’ Bosworth, he’s gotta figure out who’s killing the network guys, one by one.
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It’s another golf-crazy mystery from the author Golfweek Magazine calls “the Dick Francis of golf.”
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