Outside Agency (A Kieran Lenahan Mystery)
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Publisher Description
Lawyer turned golf pro Kieran Lenahan wakes up in the hospital, thinking he's been knocked out by a golf ball during a tournament. Only he wasn't... he'd finished his round... he's mysteriously two hours away... and the woman he was with... is dead.
As Publisher's weekly says, "Even non-golfers will delight in Lenahan's love of the game and the fairway world."
What reviewers say about Conor Daly and his Kieran Lenahan Mysteries:
"A FAST-PACED MYSTERY"
—THE NEW YORK TIMES
"DALY SCORES A BIRDIE"
—PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY
Conor Daly is the pen name of a practicing attorney.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In his second appearance (after Local Knowledge), Kieran Lenahan, formerly a lawyer and now a pro golfer, seems to antagonize just about everyone. He's just won a place on the PGA tour, but he doesn't have time to enjoy it. A blow to the head with a blunt instrument saddles him with retrograde amnesia. Worse, when he wakes up, he's no longer in Orlando, Fla., but in Gainesville, where the police are keenly interested in why he was found in the apartment of Cindy and her corpse. Kieran doesn't have a clue, but he's allowed, though still under suspicion by the surly local police, to return to the tour to compete. After a series of intense interviews with colorful local eyewitnesses, he pieces together what transpired and quickly discovers that the shrewd and stunning Cindy was a world-class con-artist who presented serious threats to members of the tour. By defending some players against gaming charges and by threatening to reveal drug use, Kieran, now a pariah, had seriously provoked both management and players. Indeed, someone is out to get him. Readers indifferent to golf may find that too many details about technique and equipment slow the book down to the pace of the game itself. And a deus ex machina finale is truly a disappointment even if it does give the book its title. Daly, however, bestows on Kieran wry wit and puts a maliciously humorous spin on the seamier side of professional golf: organized gambling; drug violations; and, of course, corporate greed.
