An adventure that blends humor and mystery and with some twists thrown in for good measure equals a really good read. The characters and dialogue keep a good pace. The story plays out with lots of twists and turns, making it a gripping read I couldn’t put down.

THE TREASURE HUNTERS CLUB by Tom Ryan is set in Maple Bay, Nova Scotia which is a seaside town and the "treasure" they are hunting is called Obelisk Treasure, from a pirate chest left long ago belonging to Captain Barnabas Dagger. Told in part in the present day, the story also shifts a generation or two back in time to when the club "members" (Henry Bellwood; Archie Jinx, "Junior" French, "Red" Oakley and Elmer Feltzen) stumble upon the treasure and decides to hide it again until they come of age. That would have turned their lives around, but instead the discovery acts as a curse of sorts which results in multiple deaths and a club member facing a long prison sentence. The treasure is stolen and hidden yet again, and future descendants try for forty years to find the treasure without luck. It takes yet another generation to solve the complicated riddle. There is a beautiful old house called Bellwood which was fun to imagine and I liked the treasure hunting aspect, but so many characters were involved and the connections became confusing: "As she tries to wrap her head around the countless relationships that have played out here over the years, and the interactions and conversations and arguments and love affairs that spiraled out from them, it almost makes her dizzy." The story starts out slowly since there is a great deal of backstory to explain, but the characters gradually come into focus and at about eighty percent of the way there is a crazy twist in the story, too. THE TREASURE HUNTERS CLUB received a starred review from Library Journal who described it as having, "the cozy charm of Jessica Fletcher's Cabot Cove, with almost as many murders."

Thank you Grove Atlantic for the this review copy, Overall, this book is a charming, quirky, fun-filled read for fans of cozy mysteries, treasure hunts, and nostalgic thrillers like The Goonies. (who doesn't love the goonies???)

The Treasure Hunters Club by Tom Ryan is a fast-paced, nostalgic adventure that blends humor, mystery, and twists. Set in the idyllic seaside town of Maple Bay, the story revolves around three characters—Peter, Cass, and Dandy—each drawn into a treasure hunt tied to their families’ pasts. The novel’s treasure-hunting theme will appeal to fans of pirate stories, with engaging characters and a setting full of small-town secrets. The adventure unfolds with plenty of twists and turns, making it an exhilarating page-turner. The story’s quirky characters and sharp dialogue keep the pace lively, and the exploration of generational bonds adds depth to the mystery.

This was just what I expected. It was a fun, light, twisty mystery. I have read other reviews critiquing the "YA writing style" but what does that even mean? YA stories today are well-thought out and more relevant to life than many "adult writing styles". I this is one I will recommend!

Who doesn’t like a treasure hunt! This book was so fun and was written for anyone that grew up reading pirate stories or watching movies about treasure hunters. I could not put down this book, I stayed up all night reading it, and I loved the adventure. Tom Ryan’s writing was super fun and entertaining from beginning to end. Overall, “The Treasure Hunters Club” is a delightful adventure with great characters. I highly recommend it!

Thank you, Net Galley, the author, and the publisher, for an e-ARC in exchange for an honest review.

If you’re looking for a book that’s both funny and exciting, “The Treasure Hunters Club” by Tom Ryan is a total winner. This book is a blast, full of humor, spot-on dialogue, and a story that keeps you hooked from start to finish.

What I loved most were the characters and the small-town vibe of Maple Bay. The town is buzzing with juicy rumors, old family secrets, and the legend of a pirate treasure. Ryan does an amazing job of weaving all these elements together, making it super engaging and hard to put down.

If you’re into cozy crime or adventure stories, this book is perfect for you. The plot moves at a great pace with lots of clever twists and turns that keep you guessing. Honestly, it would make an awesome movie, and I really hope it gets adapted for the screen someday.

Tom Ryan’s writing is sharp and witty, and he keeps the story moving quickly. The plot is well-crafted with plenty of surprises, making it a fun and entertaining read from beginning to end.

Overall, “The Treasure Hunters Club” is a delightful adventure that promises a fun and exciting reading experience. Highly recommended!

The treasurer hunters club is a fun, nostalgic read! Three people at various stages of their youth and places in life end up in maple bay for various reasons. One thing that connects them all is that they are all looking for something more in their lives. They find it in maple bay as they are all drawn into a deadly treasure hunt and on a path of redemption for their loved ones who were in the original treasure hunters club.

This is a fun read full of twists, quirky characters, lovable protagonists, and nostalgia. Recommend this to anyone who loves thrillers , adventure, and books that have a throw back feel to the goonies!

Thanks to the publisher for providing the arc via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

When you have 80 something year olds as main characters in a book, you will always have a wholesome and a dark story at the sometime. They will always show their cute and cuddly side in their relationships with youngsters in the story (especially if they are their grandkids), but also they won't hesitate to talk about dark days from the past where our society was still not doing its best.

Three people in various stages of their young lives ended up in Maple Bay: one was invited to meet his grandmother to be presented with a legacy, another was invited to housesit her father's friend's house, and the last one was there to begin with and currently grieving her grandpa. These 3 were roped into a treasure hunt they barely believe that existed by the 80 something year olds on a redemption trip for their parents.

This was more fast paced than I expected! It was laced with a lot of twists and turns for the things and people that I considered as red herrings at the beginning of the story. After more deadly mysteries, this one felt like a nice shock to my system. If you liked Thursday Murder Club, this is going to give you to similar feelings.

3 people at different stages of their lives, looking for treasure, whether it's money, gold, or a new life. THE TREASURE HUNTERS CLUB is an entertaining read told from 3 POV, each seeing the same clues and talking to the same people. The city of Maple Bay is known for it's pirate legacy where digging on the beach is a routine activity. Peter, Cass and Dandy come together as they follow the clues and discover the history that links them to the pirate's treasure. This book reads quickly as the treasure hunters solve their current problems by helping each other. These 3 characters could easily anchor a series and I would not be the only reader thrilled to read it.

This book was good but moved a bit too slow for me at the moment. I think I was looking for something fast pace so totally a reader issue not book issue. Would I recommend it to others? Absolutely because I did enjoy it.

Having never read any books by Tom Ryan, I jumped into this novel without any preconceived notions or expectations and found it to be an exceptional cozy mystery filled with adventure, treasure maps, and pirates.

In an idyllic seaside town in Nova Scotia is a famous tale of hidden treasure stashed away by pirates long ago. People all over come to Maple Bay in search of pirate treasure, but no one has successfully found the treasure. Or have they? The story is centered on three main characters: Peter, Cass, and Dandy.

Peter is the only existing heir to the Bellwood family, aside from his 90 year-old grandmother Mirabel who has just sent him a letter, requesting that they finally meet. Peter was raised by his aunt and uncle from his father's side after his parents died while he was a child. Approaching 40, he questions his life living in an apartment with a lazy roommate and working at his dead-end job. His luck is about to change when he receives a letter from his wealthy family matriarch in a request to connect at the family estate in Maple Bay, Nova Scotia. After Peter and Mirabel meet, not only is he enraptured with the grandeur of the estate but is reeling from the dark family secrets that his grandmother just unleashed on him.

Cass is a struggling author whose once popular debut YA novel seemed to fizzle out of popularity, leaving her at the end of her career. After a hard break-up, she feels she is at her wit's end when opportunity presents itself in the form of a year's stay housesitting in Nova Scotia. While housesitting, she discovers an interesting story surrounding Maple Bay and aims to write her next novel on the town folklore of hidden treasure left by pirates.

Dandy is a young girl in Maple Bay. Several weeks after the death of her grandfather, Reg Feltzen, she discovers a satchel with tools and a treasure map in a secret place shared between her and her grandfather, Grandy. In the satchel is a final letter and a directive to join the Treasure Hunters Club in his place.

This small town treasure hunt goes back several generations. The three main characters are on a mission to find the treasure (once found that has been lost again). As their paths converge, these three strangers are set on finding a treasure tied to their families from generations past.

This book was such a delight to read. It reminded me of an adult version of The Goonies. I picked up this book one evening and could not put it down. It is an interesting page-turner filled with twists and turns. I would not say that this book is recommended for a younger audience given the strong language, but it is an exhilarating book that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

Many thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the ARC. This review is voluntary. All thoughts are my own.

What a lovely story. This was a light yet engaging story with many wonderful characters. I felt truly invested and cared very much what happened to all of them. The twist at the ending was a little silly, but, that's ok. Again what a lovely story!

I love a good treasure hunting story. A hunt for the Obelisk treasure (near where the Oak Island treasure is rumored to be) is a hunt that spans generations. Unbeknown to Peter Barnett he is part of a family connected to the treasure through his estranged grandmother. She writes him a letter asking for him to come to maple Bay, he agrees. Peter isn’t the only new person in town. Are the arrivals connected in some way?

I thought I had the story figured out halfway through…until I gasped and I did not have it figured out! Reads like Nancy Drew in the middle of a treasure hunt! Okay Nancy Drew isn’t in it, but a girl named Dandy is very much Nancy Drew like is.

Thank you NetGalley and Atlantic Monthly Press, for allowing me in on the treasure hunt. #TheTreasureHuntersClub #NetGalley

I received a complimentary ARC copy of The Treasure Hunters Club by Tom Ryan from Net Galley and Grove Atlantic in order to read and give an honest review.

…A complex well-written and engaging plot that takes the reader on a wild ride! Filled with red herrings, dynamic characters, and a twist at the end that will leave one completely shocked…

New to this author I have to say I enjoyed this fast paced high-action mystery. “The Treasure Hunters Club” is a fun and extremely twisty mystery set in the small coastal town of Maple Bay, Nova Scotia.

It has it all, a lost treasure, a cold case spanning back generations, and mayhem with three strangers who have been brought together by circumstances that seem to be driven by fate.Narrated from multiple perspectives: Peter Belwood, a man in his late thirties who is summoned by a grandmother he didn’t know existed, Dandy, a grieving teenager who’s on a mission to fulfill her deceased grandfathers wishes, and Cass a struggling author at the crossroads looking for what her future holds. Peter and Dandy, connected by family ties, are drawn together by the mystery surrounding the lost treasure, Cass sees an opportunity to renew her lackluster career.

Maple Bay has a long dark history where the lure of pirate treasure has enticed many people to the town and some who will go to any lengths to find the elusive treasure of the Obelisk. As the stakes rise and people begin dying, they must solve the mystery and do everything they can to stay alive in the process.

A complex well-written and engaging plot that takes the reader on a wild ride! Filled with red herrings, dynamic characters, and a twist at the end that will leave one completely shocked. The story seamlessly blends the secrets of the past with the mysteries at hand into a book that I really enjoyed and I look forward to reading more from author Tom Ryan.

The Treasure Hunter’s Club was made specifically for that subset of kids who grew up watching Disney films from the 1960s and dreamed of finding buried treasure. I know this because (a) I am this person and (b) the book literally told me this twice. It’s that second part that annoys me a bit. Your target audience knows who they are, my friend; you don’t need to tell us.

There’s a lot to like about this book: a murder mystery, family secrets, secret grudges, and, of course, the hunt for pirate treasure. And while the first half of this book was strong and very much sucked me in, I don’t think it’s a perfect book. First off, I think the three points of view should have been whittled down to two. Cass was almost completely unnecessary. She’s more plot device than character, and because of that I bonded with her less. I would have liked to have spent more time with Dandy. She was basically Nancy Drew, ready to crack this case wide open, and I loved it. The few purposes Cass served could have been assigned to Dandy. (My guess is that the author didn’t do this because he didn’t want this book to be categorized as young adult.) Secondly, I’m still not sure what I think about the twist. Yes, it threw me for a loop, but it kind of almost made me mad. Once I realized what I as happening I muttered, “Are you KIDDING me?!” I can’t decide if I feel like the author played unfairly or if I feel stupid for not figuring it out.

Anywho, if you imagined yourself finding buried pirate treasure in Technicolor, you might give this book a chance.

This ARC was provided by the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. The Treasure Hunter’s Club will be published October.

Welcome to Maple Bay in Nova Scotia, a quaint little seaside town that has long attracted tourists with its history of pirates and a legend of a hidden treasure. Three strangers get tangled with the town’s secrets that soon turn out deadly. Peter Barnette has lived a dull life on the West Coast for most of his 40 years, when out of the blue, he gets an invitation from his grandmother he never met to visit her at Bellwoods, the family mansion in Maple Bay. Having nothing to lose, he makes his way to the other side of the country to find out about his roots. Cass Johnson unexpectedly lands a yearlong house sitting job in Maple Bay for one of her father’s oldest friend. As an unsuccessful writer, and after a breakup with her boyfriend, her expensive life in New York seems to be at an end and she grabs the opportunity. And then there is Dandy, a 17-year old local girl whose beloved grandfather just passed away. He left her information about a mysterious historical society that sparks her curiosity. Unaware of each other’s efforts, their are about to solve the town’s greatest mystery and five families’ darkest secrets.
The story is told from three POV’s, one in the first person and two on the third person. I liked the writing style and couldn’t put the book down. I thought I had it figured out halfway through but in all honesty did not see the twist at the end coming. At times it was a little hard to keep up with all the characters and names as the story covered several families’ past and present for over a century. Overall, a suspenseful, entertaining mystery with a historical touch. Dandy was my favorite character, atta girl!
Thank you Netgalley, @Groveatlantic and Mr Tom Ryan for the opportunity to read this advance copy. I truly enjoyed it and the above is my honest review and my own opinion.

About halfway through this, I needed to look up if the author here was primarily a YA author before this, and was correct. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but this really reads like YA (which also isn't a bad thing, but this wouldn't have been something I'd have picked if I had known it was the case).

There's one or two too many shifting perspectives happening in this, without enough distinction to keep the reader from getting muddled up with who's speaking. The choice to make one of those perspectives first-person while the rest are third-person felt odd until a twist got revealed 80% of the way through this that helped that choice make sense, even if the main plotline of the book was now even more of a mess. There's also a YA author character that seems to mostly be an outlet for the author's own frustrations with being a YA author?

There's not a lot to latch onto with this book - it feels written to try and capture the same market that's reading cozy-thrillers like Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club series, but it lacks the warmth/real camaraderie that series has in spades.

Thank you to the author, Atlantic Monthly Press and NetGalley, for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I have mixed feelings about this one. Billed as a murder mystery, I found it quite YA in tenor, and a bit too reliant on plot devices such as "unexpected" twists, mysterious diary entries, inexplicable messages from deceased people and hair-raising coincidences. The story is told in three different POVs, which is very confusing at first, particularly as one is first person and the other two are third person. There is also a romance shoe-horned into the narrative, not really a good fit. I did love the setting, both the town and the house Bellwood, and the character of Dandy. Overall, a quick read but lacking in suspense for those looking for a real murder mystery.

Over 200 years ago, a pirate ship battle ended with a hidden treasure that would put Maple Bay, Nova Scotia on the map for treasure hunters everywhere. After generations of mystery, heartbreak, and secret societies, Cass, Dandy, and Peter come together to find out all the secrets that Maple Bay is hiding.

This adventure story proves that Goonies never say die- they just grow up and start reading adventure books.

The characters in this story are phenomenal, from main characters to side characters. Each character you meet has a quirky yet loveable side to them, even the grumpy grumps that seem to inhabit this little town.

There are multiple POVs and timelines in this book, which can seem a little confusing at first, but the reader can easily slip into the different timelines. The setting is so thoughtfully described that the reader can easily see the beach and and feel the breeze.

While this story has a thrilling mystery to discover, it's really driven by the characters and the growth each one of them goes through until the very end. You can't help but to grow fond of everyone and want nothing but happiness for each character.

What happened to the Obelisk treasure? Dandy, Cass, and Peter all find themselves wrapped up in the mystery and the hunt that has gone on for a century-ever since, as you'll learn early on-five boys discovered the pirate's booty. That's the last spoiler from me. This is a twisty one, moving back and forth over three time frames. I'll admit to having struggled a bit in spots to keep it all straight-the who's who-because the names repeat. Cass, a writer who is house sitting and trying to write her second book, decides to write about the treasure. Peter is the long lost grandson of Mirabel, whose family owned much of the town. Dandy is a teen whose beloved grandfather just died, leaving her clues. Oh- and murders! Keep with this one because there's a big surprise. Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC. A good read that kept me guessing.