Strike Three, You're Dead

By Josh Berk

Part of the Lenny & the Mikes series

A young announcer's dream game turns into a deadly mystery on the baseball field.

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272 pages· 48,752 words· Est. 7 hour read

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Bookroo's summary

Lenny Norbeck dreams of announcing baseball games, but when a pitcher collapses mid-game, his big break turns into a murder investigation. With his friends, Mike and Other Mike, Lenny dives into a world of secrets and suspects. Can they uncover the truth before the killer strikes again? The stakes are high, and the clues are elusive in this thrilling chase for justice.

From the publisher

An Edgar Award Finalist Lenny Norbeck is a die-hard baseball lover. Unfortunately, he’s no player himself (according to him, he’s “the worst there ever was.”) But he’d make a heck of an announcer. He gets a lot of practice sitting with his best friends, Mike and Other Mike, watching Phillies games from their lawn couch–a sweet outdoor TV arrangement Mike’s dad hooked them up with. Being a real announcer is his dream, and he gets his chance to prove himself when he enters an “Armchair Announcer” contest and wins. The prize: he gets to be the broadcaster, live, for one inning at a real Phillies game. The game goes very wrong, though. Before Lenny gets to do his inning, a young, promising pitcher fresh out of the minors literally drops dead on the mound. The official verdict is that he died of a heart attack, but Lenny has a hunch there’s something more going on. So he and the Mikes set out to investigate. The suspects are many, and though the trio barks up the wrong tree a few times, they are always right on the heels of the real killer. . . .

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