Wednesday, October 16, 2019

A MURDER AT THE COUNTRY CLUB by Jessa Archer


Title:  A MURDER AT THE COUNTRY CLUB

Series:  Canterbury Golf Club Mystery #1

Author:  Jessa Archer

Publisher:  Archer Mysteries

Publish Date:   09.17.19

Category /Genre:  Cozy Mystery

Recommended for:  14+ due to murder

Grammar/editing:  received as an unedited ARC / errors excused

Received from:  Jessa Archer


Date completed: 09.23.2019



Description from the publisher:

On the night of the Canterbury Golf Club’s First Annual Glow-ball Golf Tournament, Lady Captain Beatrice Yates argues with Rudolph “Ruddy” Agani in front of all the members and specially invited guests because Ruddy can’t get along with anyone.  When Ruddy is found murdered on the club’s seventeenth hole soon after, Beatrice becomes the prime suspect.  Even her best friend and golf partner, Trudi, struggles to defend her.

But Beatrice is not the only golfer who wanted to bash Ruddy over the head with a niblick.  Ruddy was a stingy old coot and owed plenty of people in the small town money that he could’ve paid back, and he had carried those penny-pinching ways over to the club’s finances, too.  The list of suspects looks like Saturday morning’s tee times schedule.

With her best friend, Trudi, and her cantankerous uncle Arnie at her side, retired kindergarten-teacher Beatrice is prepared to play the whole course to solve the mystery, find the killer, and repair the club’s reputation before money problems force her cherished club to close.

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A MURDER AT THE COUNTRY CLUB is the first book in the Canterbury Golf Club Mystery series.  Each will stand on its own, but I would strongly suggest reading them in the order of release.



I really liked Miss Bea.  The way she made little asides about each person’s personality is just the way that I talk and remember people.  My favorite person was her nerdy, scientist, best friend, Trudi.  When even your best friend is having trouble believing your innocence you know you’ve let your curiosity get too big!  Still loyalty is important.  It was fun to follow Trudi and Bea as they worked the golf course and their members.



I may never know a putter from a wood, but I’ll continue stepping onto the metaphorical greens at Canterbury.



Note:  While I received this book as a gifted ARC via Booksprout, my opinions are my own and are given freely.



Canterbury Golf Club Mysteries:


1.      A Murder at the Country Club

2.      A Murder at the Devil’s Ball

3.      A Death in the Hazard

4.      A Major Murder

Also from Jessa Archer:

Coastal Playhouse Mysteries:


1.      Curtains for Romeo

2.      Arsenic and Olé

3.      Offed Off-Broadway

Hand Lettering Mystery series:


1.      Who Shot the Serif?

2.      In the Nib of Time

3.      Kerning to Crime

4.      Process of Illumination

Hidden Harbor Tea Shop Series:

1.      Tea is for Trouble

2.      Death before Decaf

Legal Beagle Mysteries:

Hound on the Sound

1.      Scales of Justice

2.      Treble with the Law

3.      Lawyer of Note

Thistlewood Star Cozy Mysteries:

Baskerville for the Bear

1.      A Murder in Helvetica Bold

2.      Palatino for the Painter

3.      A Séance in Franklin Gothic

Tink Tank Knitting Mysteries:

1.      Wrap and Turn

2.      Slip, Slip, Slay





















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