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Dirty Water: A Red Sox Mystery | 
| Authors: Mary-ann Tirone Smith, Jere Smith
Publisher: Hall of Fame Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 218371
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 245
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 5.8 x 1
ISBN: 0977624021
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780977624027
ASIN: 0977624021
Publication Date: October 12, 2008
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What is a baby - lightly drugged but otherwise healthy - doing abandoned in the players' chapel at Boston's Fenway Park? Meanwhile, the girlfriend of a player on the Red Sox's Portland, Maine, farm team is found beaten and drowned in Boston. Rocky Patel, a Boston PD homicide detective, catches both cases and quickly pieces together the connections between the two cases. But as good as Patel is, there's a blogger out there who always seems just a half step ahead of him and ultimately may be critical to solving the case. Baseball fans (citizens of Red Sox Nation in particular) will enjoy this one thoroughly. The authors use real players as characters and incorporate the best aspects of their public personas into the story. The plot unfolds intelligently, and Rocky Patel is a good guide through the proceedings. A solid contribution to the growing subgenre of baseball mysteries. Lukowsky, Wes.
An abandoned baby is found in the clubhouse at Fenway Park. The nurses at Deaconess name him Ted Williams, what else? A promising minor league pitcher goes missing. A player agent is caught up in a web of blackmail. A woman's body turns up in the Back Bay fens. Enter Rocky Patel, Boston Homicide Detective First Grade, ordered to connect the dots. And joining him out of left field, an anonymous blogger who knows too much.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Twisty plot January 6, 2009
My son in law read this book in one sitting. He is a hugh Red Sox fan and loved it...
familiar characters, familiar turf; fresh writing October 22, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Okay, so if you;re not a red sox fan, or not conversant with the geography of boston, you might not cozy up to this book. but I;m a mad sox fan, as anybody who knows me would attest, and this is a mystery that actually features the sox's 2007 team, and other very nicely-drawn characters--some real, some not. It;s interesting, moves along smartly, and builds to a nail-chewer finish. because it features a couple of murders, including one that comes off as truly sad and unwarranted, and because its characters are flawed everyday Joes who don;t always do the right thing, the reader can;t take comfort early on that everything will come out all right. I like that in my mysteries. the authors did a good job, even if the editor could use a box of commas (sigh. what is it about editors today, even at the big presses? sr. Mary stanislaus, my second-grade teacher, is whirling in her grave...).
Having said this, I apologize for my own erratic capitalization and punctuation here. I;m typing with my right hand in a cast, and I can;t reach the apostrophe or the right-hand shift key. Mea culpa.
anyway, thoroughly enjoyable mystery for any member of red sox nation, and/or anybody who knows and appreciates boston. and a great gift to give someone who fits the above description.
susan O;Neill, sox nut and author: Don't Mean Nothing: Short Stories of Vietnam
 A Red Sox Mystery Well Worth Reading October 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've already read this book and baseball fan or not, if you like a great mystery, this one's for you! Mysterious goings on in and around the Boston Red Sox clubhouse mix with murder, mayhem and sinister dealings in New England and beyond, all with a baseball background. If you like the Red Sox, you'll love this book. If you just like the game of baseball, you'll STILL love this book. If you don't care about baseball but like a good mystery, the same thing goes, it's simple...BUY THIS BOOK! Enjoy, everyone.
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