Hunting A Detroit Tiger
Troy Soos
(Book 4 of the Mickey Rawlings baseball mystery series)

I love baseball. I love mysteries. Put them together in one novel and I’m in literary nirvana.  Troy Soos’ Mickey Rawlings series is just the ticket. Mickey Rawlings is a journeyman utility infielder (the longest he’s spent with any major league club is 3 years) who keeps stumbling onto mysteries.  Intriguingly, in this novel, he’s the killer.

It’s Detroit in 1920, just before the season is about to start.  The papers are splashed with the news that Rawlings shot and killed Emmett Siever in self-defense.  Siever was a former ballplayer who, more recently, was trying to organize the players into a union.

Other union representatives are angry with Rawlings for killing Siever.  Some even want him dead.  Rawlings also becomes persona non grata with his teammates, even the ones who aren’t necessarily interested in a union.

On the other side of the coin, representatives of the owners are pressuring Rawlings to make an official anti-union statement and stance.  Some of these representatives are, uh, less than scrupulous.

Rawlings is interested in neither side of the issue — he just wants to play ball.

Oh, one other complication.

Rawlings didn’t kill Siever.

So, who did?  And why?  And why is Rawlings taking the rap?

Parental Guidance:  I’d probably put language at a PG, and violence at a soft PG-13 (nothing really graphic, just kinda icky and scary).