See More From Book Club Friends

Sign up and log in to post, comment and join the conversation.

Book Club Friends is 100% Canadian 🇨🇦

Peter Lovesey
Goldengirl

Goldengirl

What happens when obsession takes over?

Owner of the Dryden Merchandising Empire, Jack Dryden, is invited to a weekend at a tennis ranch, owned by one of his clients, Dick Armitage.

Figuring the chance of meeting another star tennis player in need of an agent, Dryden clears his calendar.

Instead, he meets Goldengirl. A track runner. Daughter of Armitage’s physiologist. Not what he was expecting at all. Neither was he prepared for what was to come. Adopted by Dr. Serafin and his wife at the age of three, Goldengirl was home-schooled and virtually segregated from children of her own age group. Conditioned from an early age, and trained to within an inch of her life, Goldengirl’s focus is on one thing and one thing only: winning at the next Olympic games in Moscow. Unknown as an athlete, Goldengirl sets out to shock the world. Following incredibly intense training, she tries out for the Olympics.

Dryden, initially sceptical, is finally convinced that Goldengirl does have the potential to deliver. Working against the Olympic games policy, Dryden agrees to act as Goldengirl’s agent, drumming up potential interest ahead of the games. But Dryden is no fool. Convinced there’s a catch, and uncertain about the reasoning behind the other committee members’ interest, Dryden goes in search of the truth. Surely there is more to Goldengirl’s story than meets the eye? The Olympic games are fast approaching. Dryden needs to ensure his reputation is not put on the line, or eliminated altogether, on the back of a risk he takes…

Goldengirl is a tragic and intense thriller about loyalty and obsession.

Author: Peter Lovesey
Published: 1977
Page Count: 408

This page may include affiliate links.

Purchase on:

Amazon
Amazon

Book Club Discussion Questions For Goldengirl

Goldengirl
Discuss Goldengirl With Your Book Club Friends

Do you want to take a deeper dive intoGoldengirl? Chat about themes, characters, settings, plots and let’s celebrate this book for our Book of the Month discussion!

Suggest Goldengirl

More Book Club Discussions

A Better Man
A Fatal Grace
A Great Reckoning
A Rule Against Murder
A Trick of the Light
A World of Curiosities
All the Devils Are Here
An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
Beautiful Ugly
Bury Your Dead
Glass Houses
How the Light Gets In
How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future
Iron Lake (20th Anniversary Edition)
Kingdom of the Blind
On Tyranny
State of Terror
Still Life
The Beautiful Mystery
The Boyfriend
The Briar Club
The Brutal Telling
The Crash
The Cruelest Month
The Frozen River
The Grey Wolf
The Housemaid
The Life We Bury
The Long Way Home
The Madness of Crowds
The Mighty Red
The Nature of the Beast
The River We Remember
The Rose Code
The Searcher
The Thursday Murder Club
See All Discussions

Highly Recommended Books by Peter Lovesey Book Club Friends

The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches
The Good Daughter: A Novel
Dead Right
Why We Die
Sharp Objects: A Novel
Life Sentences
The Masterpiece
On the Edge
A Mind to Murder
A Gathering of Secrets
Murder Unfolds
The Man from St. Petersburg
The Man Who Died Twice
Die for Love
Vantage Point
The Wizard's Daughter
The Devil's Code
The Sound of Broken Glass
About Face
Left for Dead
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
The Perfect Murder
The Right Jack
Murder on the Ile Sordou
Evan Only Knows
The Department of Sensitive Crimes
Death's Half Acre
The Lantern Men
Foul Matter
The Beat Goes On: The Complete Rebus Stories
Sunstroke: A Thriller
The Shoeshine Man's Regrets
Through the Window
The Devil's Seal
A Serpent's Tooth: A Longmire Mystery
Dead If You Don't
Asta's Book
A Christmas Legacy: A Novel
The Last Temptation
Fugitive Colors
The Innocent
A Royal Pain
The Story Teller
The Late Show
A Stranger in Mayfair
Lion in the Valley
Treasure State
Dead Beat
Witch
Hidden Prey
The Redbreast
Judgment Prey
The Distant Echo
Snowflakes
Though Not Dead
Hot to Trot: An Agatha Raisin Mystery
Seeing a Large Cat
The Family Remains
The Simple Truth
The God of the Hive
Bruno
Unnatural Exposure
Raw Bone
Shots Fired
The Heavens May Fall
Death at the Sanatorium
Listen to Me
An Unexpected Peril
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
Strange Affair: An Inspector Banks Novel
Careless Love
Void Moon
The Blue Last
The Inmate
The Girl of His Dreams
Full House
Daughters of Rome
A Fine Summer's Day
What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust
Necessary as Blood
Naked Once More
Death Without Company: A Longmire Mystery
Away in a Manger
The Man with the Silver Saab
Endangered Species
Blood and Mascara
Absolution by Murder
The Missing Corpse: A Brittany Mystery
Almost Midnight
Bitter Medicine: A V.I. Warshawski Novel
One-hit Wonder
Bare Bones
Through the Evil Days
A Sorrowful Sanctuary
Entry Island
Before She Disappeared
How to Seal Your Own Fate
The King's Ransom
Redemption
Three to Get Deadly
Past Lying
Mr. Mercedes
Bad Blood
Believing the Lie
Death Song
The Traitor Among Us
Gone
Cold
Coffin Road
Duma Key
Buckingham Palace Gardens
Talking God
Mortal Prey
Suffer the Little Children
The Camel Club
Knave of Diamonds
Death at Victoria Dock
Killing Tide: A Brittany Mystery
The Poet
The Ex
The Burning
Another One Goes Tonight
The Ritual Bath
The Sheen on the Silk
Divine Justice
Death of a Traitor
Earthly Delights
Dead Souls
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
Death at La Fenice
Rage: An Alex Delaware Novel
Footloose: MatchUp Collection
Another Thing to Fall
Three-Day Town
The Thursday Murder Club
Surfacing
The Old Success: A Richard Jury Mystery
A Sight for Sore Eyes
The Judas Battalion
Away with the Fairies
In League with Sherlock Holmes
I is for Innocent
Silent Bones
Evan Blessed
Splinter the Silence
A Plague of Zombies: An Outlander Novella
Hell's Corner
House of the Rising Sun
Potboiler
A Bitter Feast
The Searcher
Deception: An Alex Delaware Novel
The Charming Quirks of Others
Greygallows
John Doe: A Rizzoli & Isles Short Story
Kaleidoscope
The Templars' Last Secret
A Bitter Truth
The Sinner: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel
Tombland
Blood Memory
Dreaming of the Bones
Hard Time: A V.I. Warshawski Novel
Pardonable Lies
The Coldest Case
Cross and Burn
The Private Patient
The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2023
The Empress File
A Taste for Vengeance
Skeleton Canyon
The Cost of a Hostage
The Fourth Sacrifice
The Lost Get Back Boogie
Beneath the Bleeding
One Coffee With
The Trespasser
The Curse of the Pharaohs
Taking the Fifth
Hunting Season
Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man)
Undone: Will Trent
Old Haunts: A Simon Serrailler Short Story
Sizzling Sixteen
The Silkworm
Winter in Madrid: A Novel
Fire and Ice
The Cabinet of Dr. Leng
Shadows Reel
Justice Denied
A Fountain Filled With Blood
Breaking Silence
The Gate Keeper
The Kate Martinelli Series: Books 1-3
Mad River
Black Notice
Savage Run
The Doomsday Decree
The Cliff's Edge
Upon a Dark Night
Elevator Pitch
Duel to the Death
The Jewels of Paradise
Blue Labyrinth
The Curse of La Fontaine
Shroud for a Nightingale
The Soul of Discretion
Badlands: A Nora Kelly Thriller
The Travelling Companion
The Thunder Keeper
Love You More
Rhymes With Prey: Lincoln Rhyme vs. Lucas Davenport
The Body by the Sea: A Brittany Mystery
House of Correction
Death of a Liar
The Pursuit
The Match
Trigger Mortis
A Body in the Bathhouse
High Island Blues
Malice at the Palace
The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel
The Consequences of Fear
House of Stone
A Duty to the Dead
The Chase
The Neon Rain
Act of Mercy
In This Bright Future: A DC Smith Investigation
Snakehead
Lamentation
The Burning Room
The Heist
The Handsome Man's de Luxe Café
Death of a Dustman
Voices of Rome
The Love Talker
The Graveyard of the Hesperides
Murder on a Midsummer Night
Urn Burial
In the Woods
The Mosquito
Hatchet Island
Insidious Intent
How to Solve Your Own Murder
In Their Footsteps
London Rules
Midnight Cowboy
Monster: An Alex Delaware Novel
Beating About the Bush
Love and Other Crimes
The Neighbor
A Question of Blood
Spirit Crossing
The Retribution
A Shilling For Candles
The Black Box
Past Pretense
Miss Kopp's Midnight Confessions
Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales
The Secret Place
Hard Row
A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax
Seven Dials
The Life We Bury
Friend of the Devil: An Inspector Banks Novel
Stay Close
Meet and Greet
Coyote Hills: A Novel
The Bone Bed
All That Glitters: A Sgt. Windflower Mystery
Silent Night
Scandal Takes a Holiday
The Lewis Man
Remarkably Bright Creatures
With Child
Birds of Prey
The Hunter
Death of an Outsider
The Bounty
A Deeper Sleep
The Wedding Guest
A Monstrous Regiment of Women
Rebels and Traitors
I Know a Secret: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel
A Taste for Death
Tuesday's Gone
Bury Your Dead
Red Knife
Miss Kopp Just Won't Quit
I'll Keep You Safe
The Sentence is Death
Midnight Guardian
A World of Curiosities
One Fatal Flaw
Ammie
Storm Front
In the Nick of Time: John Rebus vs. Roy Grace
Other Worlds