As you all know by now by reading my recommendations I am a huge mystery book lover! There is something about opening the first page and not wanting to put the book down until the last page that gets to me and gets me invested into the book. I decided to go out of my comfort zone a bit and dig into a mystery novel that is a part of a series that is centered around the card game Bridge and older women. I usually don't like to read books that are themed, but you don't know if you like it until you give it a try!
The mystery novel that I gave a try was "On the Slam" by Honor Hartman. This novel centers around Emma a recent widow who moves in next door to her childhood best friend in Texas. I don't have much to say about this book, a shocker I know because this book was not my favorite because Emma to me was a flat character that did not offer must charisma for the reader to follow her along on her journey of finding herself in her current moment and finding a killer who lives in her neighborhood. Emma is a bridge player and that was a major issue for me not because she plays bridge, but that she expected the reader to know everything about bridge and that took me out of those parts in the book because I had no idea what was going on. So for me this series is out because if you can't grab my attention in the first book of the series than there is no way I am going to be into the second one.
Please give this one a try and let me know what you think by commenting on my main site found under the tab READ THIS AT THE BEACH!
From the New York Times bestselling author of A Cat in the Stacks mystery series, a novel about murder, rivalries and laying all your cards on the table… A Bridge Club Mystery (#1)Bridge tips included! Meet Emma Diamond: greenhorn bridge player, recent widow, and the kind of person who always returns her library books on time. Emma's just returned home to Houston to live next-door to Sophie, her best friend of 30 years. Sophie is delighted to share the joys of a good bridge game with Emma and her new neighbors; but their very first game doesn't go as planned…with one of the players found murdered. The victim, a notorious spoil-sport, was reviled by the entire neighborhood, which leaves a stacked deck of suspects for the police to investigate. But Emma and Sophie have their own suspicions, suspicions that the police aren't prioritizing…If Emma and Sophie don't find the real killer, they might be playing their last hand!!!