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The Case of the Missing Links: A Golf Mystery

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'The Case of the Missing Links' drew me into it's web from the first page. I was delighted to be carried away with the curious characters, breathtaking descriptive views of sea and green, and the'gum shoe lovers' playful, yet case solving banter.A truly fun and surprising Mystery!

Lee Tyler's book took me back to the many times I have played golf in the Monterey area. The story was exciting and I could not put it down. She really knows golf and is an excellent mystery writer. I read her first book and am looking forward to the next as they get better and better. It is clear to me that she did her research and knows the Monterey and Carmel areas very well. It will also be interesting to see where she takes her readers in her next novel.

Not a heavy or intense story - the book made for great reading over the Labor Day Holiday. If you've been to this part of the California coast so much the better! I enjoyed the book even though I don't play golf. It would make a nice reasonably priced book to give somebody who does play golf!

We both had a great time with this book - set on the beautiful Pebble Beach golf course with a great bunch of characters, we fully enjoyed it and recommend it to others for a fast fun read. This book has been put in the library of our retirement community and is constantly on the go -our residents enjoy it and suggest it to others.

What's more fun than reading a good mystery book, especially one where you learn something about a beautiful area and a sport much loved by many.

I found the "Case of the Missing Links" by Lee Tyler to be such a book. Have been recommending it to my friends and feel strongly that they will enjoy it as much as I did. The book keeps you guessing all the way through and even makes you want to learn to play golf if you are not already a golfer.

The detailed trashing from Orange County seems to have been written by a Shakespearean scholar whose hobby is studying law. Definitely not a golfer. Hard to understand why the reviewer read all the way through. For you golfers who would like a free trip to the beautiful Pebble Beach golf links without paying the greens fees, and would like to settle down for a bit of light summer reading instead of moping about your score and the number of balls you lost, give it a try. I almost got it right, but it didn't bother me to have been fooled once again, and it was kind of fun to be in the virtual company of a pretty, aggressive girl. Doesn't happen much any more. Carmel, California

"Missing Links" is a very bad addition to the recent golf mystery subgenre. None of Ms. Tyler's characters are believable, including the lover/sleuth protagonists (for example, they were by turns inexplicably meek and then overly aggressive). Also, while the lover theme can be wonderful, in "Missing Links" the female was on a relentless quest to get her partner into bed, a tendency I found distracting and unnecessary.

Further, the plot lacks cohesiveness and perhaps even more unforgivably, the purported motive for the primary murder is legally untenable: Ms. Tyler obviously failed to research California separate property law before committing herself to this theory.

And finally, although the tone of the book was apparently intended to be funny and quick-paced, in actuality it was uneven, exaggerated, and not amusing in the least. It's sole appeal is the setting - the beautiful Monterey Peninsula.

If Ms. Tyler is going to continue with this series, I respectfully request that she refrain from inflicting such farcical material on her readers in the future.