Arleen Armstrong
Author, lawyer, and tennis player
Author, lawyer, and tennis player
My debut novel, LOVE GAMES, is a character-driven courtroom mystery set in the rarefied air of Philadelphia country club society.
When the bloody body of a 16-year-old girl is found in the locker room of an elite country club, Gemma, the only Black player on the club's premier women's tennis team, is precipitously arrested for the crime.
Gemma's only shot at clearing her name is her cobbled-together defense team of her talented-yet-complicated friends, misfits at the Hunter Hills Country Club. They must sort through the cheating, racism, and culture of rivalries lurking beneath the perfect, opulent surface of the lofty club to uncover the true culprit.