{"id":4223,"date":"2025-09-27T05:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T05:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=4223"},"modified":"2025-09-27T05:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T05:05:00","slug":"the-treasure-hunters-club-by-tom-ryan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=4223","title":{"rendered":"The Treasure Hunters Club by Tom Ryan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Treasure Hunters Club<\/strong> by <a href=\"https:\/\/booknookbuzz.com\/reviews\/authors\/tom-ryan\/\">Tom Ryan<\/a> <br \/>on October 15, 2024 <br \/><strong>Genres:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/booknookbuzz.com\/reviews\/genres\/fiction-crime\/\">Fiction \/ Crime<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/booknookbuzz.com\/reviews\/genres\/fiction-mystery-detective-amateur-sleuth\/\">Fiction \/ Mystery &amp; Detective \/ Amateur Sleuth<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/booknookbuzz.com\/reviews\/genres\/fiction-mystery-detective-cozy-general\/\">Fiction \/ Mystery &amp; Detective \/ Cozy \/ General<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/booknookbuzz.com\/reviews\/genres\/fiction-mystery-detective-general\/\">Fiction \/ Mystery &amp; Detective \/ General<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/booknookbuzz.com\/reviews\/genres\/fiction-mystery-detective-women-sleuths\/\">Fiction \/ Mystery &amp; Detective \/ Women Sleuths<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/booknookbuzz.com\/reviews\/genres\/fiction-thrillers-general\/\">Fiction \/ Thrillers \/ General<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/booknookbuzz.com\/reviews\/genres\/fiction-world-literature-canada-21st-century\/\">Fiction \/ World Literature \/ Canada \/ 21st Century<\/a> <br \/><strong>Pages:<\/strong> 384 <br \/><strong>Format:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/booknookbuzz.com\/reviews\/formats\/hardcover\/\">Hardcover<\/a> <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4gK94VV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Buy on Amazon<\/a> <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/7865608412\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Goodreads<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The <em>Treasure Hunters Club<\/em> skillfully braids together the lives of three unlikely sleuths: Peter, nearing forty and stuck in a rut until a mysterious letter pulls him back to Maple Bay; Cass, a writer whose career has stalled, grasping at a second chance while housesitting in the seaside town; and Dandy, a sharp and determined teenager whose late grandfather left her a clue to the town\u2019s greatest unsolved mystery. Their paths cross in a place where pirate lore, family secrets, and old grudges run just as deep as the tides.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">I was pulled in quickly\u2014this book wastes no time setting the stage and keeps a brisk pace throughout. The narrative feels like a treasure hunt in the truest sense, not of gold and jewels, but of half-buried letters, forgotten notebooks, and scraps of stories that have lingered in Maple Bay for generations. The twists were genuinely surprising\u2014I thought I knew where the mystery was heading, only to be blindsided (in the best way) by revelations I didn\u2019t see coming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Each perspective added something unique, but Dandy in particular stole the show for me. She\u2019s quirky, stubborn, and felt like a Gen Z Nancy Drew\u2014though at times, it stretched believability that a teenager could take on so much detective work. Still, she was easily my favorite character to follow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">My only real complaint is that there were <em>a lot<\/em> of characters to keep straight. Everyone seemed to play a role in the mystery, which occasionally made it hard to track who was who. But aside from that, I found the prose engaging, the setting atmospheric, and the puzzle at the center truly satisfying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">For me, this was a solid <strong>4-star read<\/strong>\u2014fast-paced, clever, and just the right balance of suspense and small-town intrigue.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ubb-final-rating\"><\/div>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/booknookbuzz.com\/the-treasure-hunters-club-by-tom-ryan\/\">The Treasure Hunters Club by Tom Ryan<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/booknookbuzz.com\/\">Book Nook Buzz<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Treasure Hunters Club by Tom Ryan on October 15, 2024 Genres: Fiction \/ Crime, Fiction \/ Mystery &amp; Detective \/ Amateur Sleuth, Fiction \/ Mystery &amp; Detective \/ Cozy \/ General, Fiction \/ Mystery &amp; Detective \/ General, Fiction \/ Mystery &amp; Detective \/ Women Sleuths, Fiction \/ Thrillers \/ General, Fiction \/ World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}