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The Dead Pull Hitter: A Kate Henry Mystery
The Dead Pull Hitter: A Kate Henry Mystery
The Dead Pull Hitter: A Kate Henry Mystery
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The Dead Pull Hitter: A Kate Henry Mystery

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For the first time in their history, the Toronto Titans are on a winning streak and headed for the World Series—a dream come true for sports reporter and baseball fan Kate Henry. But when a pair of murders hits the team at its very heart, Kate finds herself in the middle of the investigation.

Covering both the end-of-season excitement and the murders, Kate is drawn closer and closer to the killer—and to handsome Andy Munro, the police detective assigned to the case. And when some explosive evidence lands unexpectedly in her lap, Kate is given the key to solving the case.

Set in 1990’s Toronto, The Dead Pull Hitter is the first novel in the Kate Henry mystery series. It is followed by Safe at Home, Night Game, Striking Out, and Prairie Hardball.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherHarperCollins
Release dateDec 12, 2014
ISBN9781443442480
The Dead Pull Hitter: A Kate Henry Mystery
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Alison Gordon

Alison Gordon was a Canadian journalist and writer. As the first woman on the baseball beat in the Major Leagues, Gordon was a trailblazer in the field of sports journalism, covering the Toronto Blue Jays for the Toronto Star for five years. Gordon was also the author of the Kate Henry mystery series, pitting the sleuthing talents of a baseball journalist against dangerous felons. The series includes the titles The Dead Pull Hitter, Safe at Home, Night Game, Striking Out, and Prairie Hardball. Alison Gordon died in 2015.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    BOTTOM-LINE:Nice start to the series.PLOT OR PREMISE:Dead Pull Hitter feels like it picks up where Gordon's non-fiction left off: the Toronto Titans have finished in fourth place the previous year and are starting to pull it together for a pennant race; the protagonist Kate Henry is a woman sportswriter who's covered them for five years; she works for the Toronto Planet which is sandwiched in the news market between the stodgy World and the bimbette-littered pages of the Mirror. At times it was hard to remind myself that this was the fiction category!.WHAT I LIKED:The fun doesn't really take off until after the first body arrives. Up until then, it is basically a baseball story. After that, the murder mystery takes hold. The clues are there for the finding: some obvious, others more subtle. Nicely written, and combines the baseball / mystery storylines with an appropriate emphasis on the mystery. And the cop-as-a-romantic-partner-and-mystery-antagonist-theme is alive and well in the book..WHAT I DIDN'T LIKE:The start on the baseball story gives you a fairly large cast of characters that may be easy for a baseball fan to keep straight (i.e. player X is a catcher), but the names all seemed to run together for me. The baseball players also seem to have an enormously large and direct role in Kate's life, which doesn't seem to fit with her being a member of the objective sports press that covers them regularly..DISCLOSURE:I received no compensation, not even a free copy, in exchange for this review. I was not personal friends with the author, but I did interact with her online.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    What could be better? A mystery with a strong female amateur detective AND baseball? Not much. Like the author, protagonist Kate Henry is a sports reporter covering that wonderful game. There's a great plot and super realism about both journalism and baseball. Alison Golden's background makes this her niche! Golden was a Canadian journalist and writer who was the first woman on the baseball beat in the Major Leagues. She was a trailblazer in the field of sports journalism, covering the Toronto Blue Jays for the Toronto Star for five years. Sadly, Golden died in 2015, leaving behind only five titles in the Kate Henry series. I shall have to space them out and savour them. I had a wonderful time reading The Dead Pull Hitter and even learned a couple of things I didn't know about the game.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Kate Henry is a sports reporter for a Toronto newspaper and her beat is the Toronto Titians, a major league baseball team. When pitchers start dropping dead of unnatural causes, her beat turns into homicide. I have to admit that I've read better mysteries but I've rarely read a novel by a writer who knows more about professional baseball. As a baseball fan, this book was a joy. I already have her others on my 'to read' pile.

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