The Hacker Golf Mystery Series

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James Y. Bartlett's Hacker golf mystery series continues to be among the best on the market today!

Mystery fans will love the intricate plotting and memorable characters in Bartlett's page-turning stories.

Golf fans will love the "inside the ropes" color from one of the game's foremost golf writers.

Death in a Green Jacket

A Hacker Mystery

by James Y. Bartlett

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As exciting as the back nine on Sunday at the Masters!

A body is buried in a bunker weeks before the start of the Masters golf tournament. When intrepid golf writer Pete Hacker begins to investigate, he runs up against a wall of silence from official Augusta and a feared killer from the South American drug cartels lurking in the azaleas. And he begins to learn about an unsavory past that may be about to catch up with Augusta National.


With his new inamorata Mary Jane at his side, and the usual cast of characters real and imaged drawn from the “inside game” of golf, Hacker is off on a “major” new adventure that’s as exciting as the back nine on Sunday at the Masters!

ISBN: 978-0-9754676-6-4 || Trade softcover ||268 pgs ||$14.99

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Death at the Member-Guest

A Hacker Mystery

by James Y. Bartlett

Member Guest coverJust a fun weekend of golf with the guys ... and a murder!

Invited to play in a buddy’s weekend Member-Guest tournament, golf writer Pete Hacker encounters the president of the Shuttlecock Club, a strange, tantrum-throwing cheat. And when the man is murdered during the tournament, there are plenty of suspects.

Was it the club pro, having an affair with the dead man’s sexy young wife? One of the man’s business associates whom he regularly cheated? Or was it the Mob seeking revenge for a deal done bad? Hacker has to sift through the clues and find the killer before the Mob comes looking … for him!

 

ISBN: 978-0-9754676-2-6 ||Trade softcover|| 236 pages|| $11.99

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Death From the Ladies Tee

A Hacker Mystery

by James Y. Bartlett

Ladies Tee coverWho said girls always play nice??

Intrepid golf reporter Pete Hacker agrees to cover an LPGA event as a favor to an old friend, but when he arrives in Miami, he finds an organization that appears to be run as the private fiefdom of Wynnona “Big Wyn” Stilwell, one of the tour’s fading stars.

Digging into the story, Hacker begins to uncover some of Big Wyn’s secret dealings. And that’s when the trouble starts. Hacker’s friend is savagely beaten and the tour commissioner is found dead of an apparent suicide.


As the tournament draws to a close, Hacker must race to put all the pieces together before he, too, becomes a target.

 

 

ISBN: 978-0-9754676-1-9 ||Trade softcover || 220 pgs || $11.99

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Death is a Two-Stroke Penalty

A Hacker Mystery

by James Y. Bartlett

two stroke penalty coverDeath stalks the fairways!

Behind the scenes of the Carolina Open, golf writer Pete Hacker is confronted with the death of an up and coming young star. Was his death an accident? Or was it murder?

A drug-dealing caddie, a desperate golf groupie and a strange, Bible-thumping chaplain are just some of the characters Hacker encounters as he tries to sort out the truth.

The story turns deadly when Hacker’s own life is threatened. From the first tee to the last putt, this first Hacker golf mystery (slightly updated and revised from the original hard cover edition published in 1991) is an exciting trip behind the scenes of professional golf.

 

 

ISBN: 978-0-9754676-0-2 ||Trade softcover || 196 pgs || $11.99

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