Sudden Death: A Novel

Rita Mae Brown

Random House Publishing Group, May 4, 2011 - Fiction - 256 pages

Outrageous, irrepressible and endlessly  entertaining, the bestselling author of Rubyfruit Jungle  and Bingo spins a behind-the-scenes tale of women's  professional tennis that dramtically intertwines  the heart-stopping excitement of competition and  the lingering heartache of intimate human bonds.  Carmen Semanan loves three things passionalty:  tennis, money and professor Harriet Rawls. Just  twenty-four, Carmen is at her peak as one of the  world's top-seeded tennis champions, determined to win  the coveted Grand Slam. She is protected from  everything but the grueling demands of her sport by an  avericious agent and her devoted gusty Harriet.  All the odds are in her favor. But there are weeds  growing in her paradise patch. Carmen's vey latin  brother, Miguel, parlays her succes into a  financial house of cards with deals that include  smuggling, forgery, and fraud. Susan Reilly, Carmen's  archrival and former lover, leaks word of Carms's  relationship with Harriet to the press--and tennis's  best-kept secret is blown into a front-page  scandal. From the French Open to Wimbledon, jealousies,  ambitions and passions are set to explode. Now,  with everything she cherishes on the line, Carmen  must test the true depths of her feelings-both on  and off the court.

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This book is a "horrid example". The author and Martina Navratilova were, for a time, a very public couple. Then they broke up. And Brown made the fatal error of writing a roman-à-clef. This is always ...

Contents

• Section 1: 15
• Section 2: 37
• Section 3: 59
• Section 4: 83
• Section 5: 97
• Section 6: 123
• Section 7: 149
• Section 8: 161
• Section 9: 183
• Section 10: 207
• Section 11: 225
• Section 12: 231
• Section 13: 242
• Section 14: 243

About the author

Rita Mae Brown is the bestselling author of the Sneaky Pie Brown series; the Sister Jane series; A Nose for Justice and Murder Unleashed; Rubyfruit Jungle; In Her Day; and Six of One, as well as several other novels. An Emmy-nominated screenwriter and a poet, Brown lives in Afton, Virginia.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Sudden Death: A Novel
• Author: Rita Mae Brown
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group, 2011
• ISBN: 0307793966, 9780307793966
• Length: 256 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Cozy / General; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths