Showing results by author "Michael Murphy" in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Hailed as a classic when it first appeared in 1972, Michael Murphy's novel combines an amiable Zen mysticism with what many consider the very mystical - and sometimes downright frustrating - sport of golf. At its center is the charming guru of the Scottish links, Shivas Irons, whose instruction is as pertinent in life as it is on the course. After a long wait, this shamanic golf pro reappeared for the follow-up novel, The Kingdom of Shivas Irons.

It sounded like the perfect crime: low risk, nonviolent, high reward, and when it was all over, three amateur thieves would have more money than they'd ever dreamed possible. What they never counted on was that another group of intruders - intruders with no qualms about spilling blood - had their sights set on the same objective, and would stop at nothing to protect what they saw as their property. Only time and the will to survive would determine who would live to see the dawn.

She was a professional beauty, with a face and body that every woman envied and every man desired. Then an anonymous madman destroyed that beauty, and private investigator Paul Murdock was hired to find out why.