Death Club [Paperback]

Claire McNab (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1562802674 | ISBN-13: 978-1562802677 | Publication Date: April 27, 2001 | Edition: 1st

Loaded with brains, style and megabucks, Australian fashion magnate Gussie Whitlew is used to getting everything she wants. And what she wants is the finest food, the fastest cars, and the most fabulous women. This time her bait is Whitlew Challenge, an exclusive golf tournament carefully designed to lure the world`s top female athletes to her private clubhouse.

With a lot more at stake than the $1.5 million purse, tension soon flares among players, fans, and just about everyone else. American star Toni Karstares (an out lesbian) and her homophobic rival, Englishwoman Fiona Hawk, are the first to go at it. Then Fiona gets caught up in a very public altercation with her larcenous manager. Before long, so much is going on off the course that even abrasive sports reporter Mandi Fiedler has a hard time keeping her eye on the ball. Until the fairway becomes a killing field and someone sets out to even the score.

Product Details

• Paperback: 215 pages
• Publisher: Naiad Pr; 1st edition (April 27, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1562802674
• ISBN-13: 978-1562802677
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,041,401 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Time to bury this body..., June 16, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Death Club (Paperback)

Detective Inspector Carol Ashton is a protaganist who has outlived her plot. This story's ending was so abrupt and illogical, it left this reader feeling disappointed and betrayed.

And speaking of betrayal, ever since Carol parted ways with her better half, Sybil, several episodes ago, this series has been heading down hill. It would be merciful if McNab would wrap up this project and put it to rest. That would leave her more time to develop her other series starring Denise Cleever who, unlike Carol, still has a heart.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Same Old Same Old, May 29, 2001

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Pbear-Spirit (Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Death Club (Paperback)

I gave this book two stars because it's Clair McNab whose prose is beautiful and dialog crisp and believable. Her books are easy to read. Yes, Clair McNab can write. I just wish she would. Solving the mystery relied on interviewing one lying suspect after another until Carol solves the murder through grinding police work. I will admit to being kept guessing until the end as to the identity of the murderer. And I was thankful that we were not subjected another scene of Carol blundering into the perpetrator and nearly being killed as she was in her previous two outings.

With regard to Carol's arid personal life, this book like her last two before it was flat. There has been little in the way of character development of Carol's latest love interest. Leota Woolfe who was introduced in the previous book, "Under Suspicion", shows up in Australia for the perfunctory love scene (read sex without much emotional impact). I have yet to discover what Leota sees in Carol or vise versa. Yet, ...Leota proclaims her love for Carol. Huh? And it seems that Carol continues to have "feelings" for her former lover, Sybil, but never acts on or even muses over them. I am very tired of this unresolved and un-addressed non-relationship. But McNab seems content to let this old love hang like clouds over Sydney harbor. I had hoped for more.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Let Carol Ashton Die with Dignity, May 24, 2001

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Martha Mcclements "mmtv" (Tucson, AZ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Death Club (Paperback)

I hate it when a good character gets boring, and that's what has happened to poor Detective Inspector Carol Ashton. I think this series either needs to retire or be reborn. Actually it could have stopped several books before. What happened to Carol? She use to be intriguing, multidementional, not to mention sexy. Now we the typical Niad 200 page, spit out another of a series of watered down (maybe edited out), over priced piece of junk. My hope is when number 14 shows up I have enough sense to hold on the my money.