The Perfect 10

Palm Beach And Polo....
Palm Beach, Polo players extraordinaire, dirty dealings and murder. When the World’s top Polo player is found dead in a flash Palm Beach hotel chaos ensues. Entertaining fast paced mystery with a colourful cast of characters and an engaging storyline.

I love this fast-paced world about Palm Beach and the polo scene. Mystery and a thriller combined. I highly recommend this book it’s one to watch

Read it really fast. Entertaining but slight. Big emphasis on the sport of Polo. So if you are interested in Polo this book is for you.

I can usually tell her I’m going to feel a part of book partly based on the setting. The setting for this book is Palm Beach and Polo community. Add in a murder and it’s perfect. I love this book and I highly recommend it.

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•Okay so this book right here was IT! I read it really fast and the more I was nearing to the climax, the harder it was to keep this (e)book down. I read till 4 in the morning and I only do this if a book is really really interesting.

•It covered a lot of subjects-be it the game of kings itself, Palm beach, the White House, the US Secret Service, the media etc. and different POVs as well. The most amazing thing was that none of it creates a distraction from the main plot and makes the story more intriguing and complex( which I really liked!).

•Totally loved the main characters and how clever they were.

•This was the first work of fiction by Eric O'Keefe who is an author and screenplay writer as well and has an extensive knowledge about polo as well as the US media.

•Also the 70's style amazing artwork on the cover is by Robert McGinnis who is known for his posters for classics such as Breakfast At Tiffany's, Diamonds Are Forever, Live And Let Die, and many more.

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This book was so much more than I imagined it would be. There was a murder and mystery around it ofcourse, but other than that it was centered around a sport so amazing ( which I almost knew nothing about, I thank God for this book), with a hint of romance as well. What more can you ask for?!
Thank you so much @netgalley #netgalleyarcs for this ebook. This book releases today itself.
I would wholeheartedly give this a 5/5 ⭐ rating.
I will recommend this a 100%.

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If you like reading about the super rich and playing polo you will love this story. This story has a murder and lots of polo. I loved all the twists and turns but I really hope that the rich are not getting away with as much as this book says. It is fun to read about people that are that rich though hard to understand them. I received a copy of this book from River Grove Books for a fair and honest opinion that I gave of my own free will.

Juan Harrington is a famous Argentinian polo player. He always looks forward to playing polo in Palm Beach. On a Tuesday morning he checks into his favorite hotel, Brazilian Court. Later that afternoon, a maid making her rounds finds Juan dead in his bedroom. Enjoyable and compelling read. Would recommend.

Thank you to Eric O’Keefe, NetGalley, and River Grove Books for the ARC of this book.

When a top-notch polo player is found dead in his hotel room, people are quick to assume that his mistress (the polo team owner's wife) is the culprit. But is she? I haven't read any books that are centered around polo, so that was interesting! This was a pretty fast-paced murder mystery, which is right up my alley as I love to find out whodunit!

The Perfect 10 definitely depicts very realistically the people, the surrounding area, and the event of the US Open Polo Championships very well. The author makes you feel as if you are right there alongside the spectators.

Filled with twists and turns and unexpected results this book kept me on the edge of my seat. The characters were well-crafted and the story-line is quite believable.

You can't help but fall in love with the characters and the story.

This book was provided to me in exchange for my honest opinion. I highly recommend The Perfect 10.

Fantastic book. O'Keefe handles the often over-the-top details of The Perfect 10 with consummate professionalism. The high stakes and high society world of professional polo is delineated well here as the background for a murder that appears to be an affair gone wrong. While the swirling currents of the murder investigation are interesting, the real star here is Rick Hunt, West Point grad and former polo player, who takes point on the behind-the-scenes investigation having connections that the Miami PD just can't match. The best scene in the book might be when the President of the US grabs the phone from Rick and riffs with the daughter of one of the polo team owners. Priceless!

Like any book that I read, the covers are always what draws me in. So when I saw this book cover I knew I had to read it especially with it being a mystery book. Plus the plot for the book already drew me because I like Palm Springs and I like polo. Juancito Harrington is found murdered in his hotel room. The primary suspect is Juancito's wife. Rick Hunt is put on the case will he be able to find the killer or will the suspect escape?

Thank you Greenleaf Book Group and NetGalley for an ARC.

I don't know about you, but I often choose a book to read based on its cover. That is the case with this book by Eric O'Keefe. I liked the 1960's retro look and the promise of a book set in Palm Beach, Florida. Flurries may be swirling outside my window, but when I open this book I'm transported to palm trees and polo ponies. A perfect escape for late January.

Going into this book I didn't know anything about polo outside vintage Ralph Lauren commercials. Now I have a better understanding of the game and now realize that it has a global fandom. This book is a fast-paced mystery in the style of James Patterson. This book has multiple POV characters and it takes a little while before you, the reader, understand how the different characters fit into the central mystery of who killed Juan Harrington and why. It's like an out of focus picture that slowly becomes sharp.

As the field of suspects narrows, I had a pretty good idea of motive but I wasn't sure who was the killer before it was revealed. If you like reading thrillers and you enjoy sports, add this book to your TBR pile, and get ready for the high stakes world of the Sport of Kings.

If this really is the author's debut novel, I have to congratulate, as this is one of the best I have read. The book is very easy to read, with short chapters and excellent descriptions, and there is an amusing tone all the way through. This is mostly due to the fantastic characters, as they are slightly over the top, such that you'll want more and more. The setting also makes this book special, as I knew very little about polo, and the author has made it the basis for every aspect of the story. 5 stars plus.

This book was read thanks and through NetGalley, it was published on December 8th, 2020.


As usual on this blog, we will talk not about the story but how I felt while read it.

And let me tell you this story is a thriller that starts when someone murders Juancito, the best polo player in the world, and the prime suspect is his trophy wife.
That being said my polo knowledge is zero, and I felt like the Polo was their main character more than the agent in charge to solve the case and the trophy wife, which it cannot be a positive experience if like me you know nothing about the game.

The author does a nice job setting the story and narrative, the story moves quick and keeps emerging you into the story. I highly recommend it to people who loves thrillers with murder, lies, and a high society world, this is the book for you, like I said my recommendation is do a quick investigation about Polo before read it, it will make the story move way faster.


Do I like it? Yes
Do I recommend it? Yes