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Title: Bad Lie

Subtitle: Jack Austin PGA Tour Mystery Series, Book 4

Author: John R. Corrigan

Narrator: David Mellon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-01-14

Publisher: John R Corrigan

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

In this golf mystery, Jack Austin promised surrogate son Nash Henley he'd help find his real father. When Owen Henley is murdered, Nash wants to know who the man was, a request that leads Jack away from striving to reach golf's top echelon to an international smuggling scheme. A gunshot changes everything.

Critic Reviews:

"Will remind many of Robert B. Parker and Dick Francis at their best." (Publishers Weekly )

Members Reviews:

John Corrigan Just Gets Better and Better

In golf another term for a "bad lie" is "rub of the green." I am not sure of it's derivation although I am pretty sure it's an old Scottish expression meaning "you figure your way out of this on your own - you get no help."

That is pretty much what is facing PGA Tour Pro Jack Austin as he undertakes to fulfill a promise to his surrogate son, Nash Henley to help him find his biological father.

That doesn't sound like an undertaking that would be fraught with danger and even death, but as it turns out, it is all that and more.

One of the things I like about this series is that while Jack Austin is a PGA Tour golfer, that fact does not dominate the story, but is very nicely woven into it's fabric with much factual information as well as vignettes which have a ring of authenticity to them.

That Jack Austin has managed to have a career that has now lasted several years on the PGA Tour is in itself remarkable given the outside distractions he has had to endure. However, Corrigan makes it all plausable.

A note on the book jacket compares the author favorably to Robert B. Parker and Dick Francis. He is a much better writer than Parker, but as I have thought about it, the allusion to Francis works for me. John Corrigan's books about Jack Austin are as much about golf as Francis's were about horse racing. They both have interesting characters, pay attention to the details of the sport that they use for a background and spin stories that keep you turning the pages.

I see no point in outlining the plot. What you really need to know is that if you like a nice mystery, enjoy good writing and every so often tee it up you will most likely find this author well worth your time. Teeing it up isn't required, however. I never rode a race horse, but I read all of Francis's novels. I have read all of John Corrigan's also. I hope he has as long a run.

I enjoy golf associated books

I enjoy golf associated books. But this series casts the golf pro as a cross between Rambo, Houdini and Sherlock Holmes. In two books he has escaped kidnapping by Mafia types twice, killed five bad guys and played tournament golf well without sleep and injured. Enough is too much!

Golf fiction at its best

Some golf fiction books have very little golf weaved into the story or has too much golf and a thin story line. Bad Lie is the perfect balance of golf and story line. This book has me hungry to read more from the Jack Austin series.

So-so book

Not a bad read, but not a great one, either. Didn't make me want to read the other Jack Austin books. The author needs a good proofreader.

Good Read

My first experience with Corrigan's work, will not be my last. If you enjoy golf and like mysteries, this is for you