Drop Shot by Harlan Coben
24-year-old tennis star Valerie Simpson is on the verge of making her comeback when she is shot near the Food Court during the U.S. Open. The sarcastic sports agent Myron Bolitar learns that Simpson was urgently trying to contact him and decides to go after her killer, enlisting the help of his elegantly lethal friend Win Lockwood.
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Fall 2023: The Game’s Afoot
“The game’s afoot” is a phrase often used by Sherlock Holmes to Watson to mark the start of a crime-solving adventure. In the books for this fall, we’ll read about crimes that involve actual games: basketball, football and tennis.