Name: Last Shot
ISBN: 9780553494600

John Feinstein

After winning a basketball reporting contest, eighth graders Stevie and Susan Carol are sent to cover the Final Four tournament, where they discover that a talented player is being blackmailed into throwing the final game.

A Final Four Mystery

Last Shot

Jeni Enjaian

A review from my old blog...

I thought I would enjoy this book. After all I love college basketball and especially March Madness but this book disappointed in many respects.

At the beginning of the book I held out high hopes because Feinstein set up a rather intriguing premise. Now, perhaps I started to develop a little bit of antipathy towards him because of the main character's anti-Duke bias. Of course I don't mean that literally but anyway.

While this book is a mystery I do not condone the rather unethical actions that Stevie and Susan Carol took to solve the mystery. Added to that the resolution of the mystery took quite a cliche turn and rather farfetched turn at that.

I don't recommend this book.

Last Shot A Final Four Mystery