College athletics investigator Reggie Lichtman takes on a case of murder during a college softball tournament when a new coach begins to stretch the definition of stiff competition. A first novel.
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From Publishers Weekly
A timely subject--the high, even deadly, competitiveness of women's sports--sharpens the edge of this athletically paced first novel. Regina Lichtmann, chief investigator for the College and University Athletic Association (CUAA), is in the stands when a four-time national champion softball team is unexpectedly defeated by Burleigh College, a lower-division school. One of the stars on the losing team collapses after the game and is taken to a San Diego hospital. Reggie, already curious about the upstart team, which, unlike most of Burleigh's student body, is made up mostly of minority students, is further troubled by the unsympathetic attitude displayed in a TV interview by Burleigh's coach, a diminutive but hard-as-nails woman. Wangling an assignment to write up the coach's success, Reggie's research leads her to an inner-city social worker who may be taking money for linking disadvantaged high-school athletes with colleges eager to improve their sports programs. The students' educations aren't fostered; they are expected only to play hard and stay eligible until they are replaced by other hopeful recruits. In the process of uncovering this scandal, Reggie also solves the nearly perfect murder of the athlete whose death started the search.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
The collapse and death of a young woman athlete during a softball game sends Regina Lichtmann's intuition into hyperdrive. Investigator for the College and University Athletic Association, she starts a solitary and ultimately dangerous quest to undo the woman's female coach. Basically friendless, Regina does receive some help from distant contacts and from her boss. Well-modulated prose may draw readers in, but the initial flawed motivation and overall lack of tension of this first effort will not hold them for long.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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