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Whack 'N' Roll: A Bunco Babes Mystery

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Serenity Cove Estates in South Carolina is a senior citizens housing development and home to the Bunco Babes, retirees who play Bunco twice a month. They are good friends and keep active. While playing golf, Kate McCall's ball rolls into a rough patch filled with bushes. When she goes to retrieve her errant shot, she finds a Wal-Mart bag with a severed arm inside.

They call the sheriff who takes over the investigation, but Kate snoops around trying to help the law catch the perpetrator. Kate notices that her neighbor Rosalie Brubaker has not been seen in a while. Her husband Earl who grows orchids like a hippie says they had a fight and she left to see their children. Other body parts are found in the state park and at the recreation center. An anonymous phone caller to the sheriff insists that Earl is the killer and the murder weapon is in his house. Kate believes Earl is not the killer and has quite a few alternative suspects with motives to murder Rosalie, but finding proof could prove deadly.

This is a delightful amateur sleuth starring a protagonist who advises the sheriff giving him clues while hoping he will share his findings with her. She and the Bunco Babes are a close knit group who has each other's back like the Musketeers so Kate has a powerful geriatric support group. The spunky Kate and her BFFs are filled with so much energy that people half their age will admire them. Gail Oust provides a complex whodunit starring a cast of eccentric sexagenarians.

Harriet Klausner

This mystery cozy was a nice treat for me.
It involves a bunch of ladies who play Bunco, and try their best at golf.
When one of the ladies finds a dead body on the golf course, all bets are off!
They are on a roll to find the murderer any way possible.
These lovely ladies, gossipers at their best, find time to help find the killer
and still keep playing Bunco and a game or two of golf.
I really enjoyed this book.
I can't wait for the next book called "Til Dice Do Us Part".
I had to laugh at some of their antics.
You see, most of these ladies are in their sixties,
and they are a riot.
I would happily join their Bunco squad anytime.

This is a fun and fast read. It's easy to picture the characters and their surroundings. Pretty good mystery story, too!

Bought this book due to the Publishers Weekly review saying it was superior to the typical cozy and involved humor. It is the first in a series and maybe the author's first mystery but I agree with Publishers Weekly. The mystery part was a bit obvious but the characters and setting were terrific and far better realized than in most cozies. I especially enjoyed the main character. She was very engaging and made me want to read her further adventures in the next book in the series. If the mystery part were just a bit better I'd give it five stars instead of four.

I enjoyed this group of characters that have bonded together and support each other while the main sleuth, Kate goes off determined to find out what happened to one of their own.

This was my first introduction to the social game known as Bunco. What a nice gathering to mainly socialize with each other. I wouldn't mind joining a like group.

When a substitute player goes missing, the gang of ladies realize there are three women unaccounted for in their retirement community. Then, a golf foursome finds ...well I will let you read the book and make the finding for yourself, anyways, the women set out to solve this mystery that the Sheriff seems to be taking too lightly.

This novel was well crafted for a first in the series. By the ending you know the characters and are ready to see what they get into next.

A good cozy murder mystery.

Recommended for people who like a mystery and want a fun escape. Similar to a "murder she wrote" mystery but funnier.

There were way too many references to various television shows in this book and not just the CSI and Law and Order type shows. For instance, in one sentence, the main character has some "s'plainin" to do a la the Lucy show. It gets very tiresome. Also, lots of repetition, too. Within the first two pages we are told three times that one of the perkier characters is a former cheerleader. Okay, got it the first time. I gave it three stars because the mystery is half-way interesting.

I hardly ever put a book down without finishing it. I didn't get past the third chapter on this one. It was boring and improbable.

I received the book in the condition I was told it would be in and in great time. no problems