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The Amateur : A Novel.
When a young woman, a golf prodigy, kills a caddy with a stray ball at the country club, the investigation of this freak accident reveals a dark and shocking tale of secret affairs and predatory men, and suddenly a teenager is on trial.
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- ISBN: 9780385551298
- Physical Description: 336 pages
- Publisher: Canada : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2026.
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| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | Library Bound Incorporated |
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| Subject: | FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths FICTION / Thrillers / Psychological FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense |
| Genre: | Thrillers (Fiction) |
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When a young woman, a golf prodigy, kills a caddy with a stray ball at the country club, the investigation of this freak accident reveals a dark and shocking tale of secret affairs and predatory men, and suddenly a teenager is on trial in this spellbinding novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Midwives and The Flight Attendant.
1978: It is the first Thursday in August and temperatures are flirting with ninety when Mira Winston, eighteen years old, drives a golf ball from her tee toward the practice net near the clubhouse and caddy shack. The golf ball, weighing 1.6 ounces, tears through the net, traveling 150 miles per hour, and slams, with sickening force, into the temple of a high school junior named Kenny Foster, rupturing an artery and unleashing a torrent of blood. Kenny brings his hand to the side of his head, then topples onto his side. Heâs dead before the ambulance even arrives.
In the wake of this terrible accidentâand everyone, at first, agrees it was an accidentâMira looks for comfort in all the wrong places: In her lover, Theo Catton, a married man three decades her senior. In her mother, a well-kept woman with secrets of her own. In the dead caddyâs little sisters, girls bewildered by grief. But when the investigators look more closely at the torn net, when a detective recalls Miraâs history of recklessness, and when Kennyâs father spies Mira with her married lover, the affluent and mannered community turns on this once-promising young woman. A gripping story that takes the reader from the sun-soaked greens of a tony Westchester country club to the fluorescent-lit stand of a county courtroom, The Amateur asks: What happens when one small momentâa swing, a ball, a piece of stringâchanges the course of an entire life?
