A Rain of Death

INVITATION TO MURDER

It's January '74. Nicklaus wishes he were home with the kids. Weiskopf is ready to make a charge, and so is a bell-bottomed blond named Miller. In the world of golf and the realm of fame, nothing matches the Bing Crosby Pro-Am tournament, played at America's most extraordinary golf course—Pebble Beach—and drawing starlets, stars, and billionaires by invitation only. But this year the wind and rains won't stop. And a corporate tycoon has dropped dead in The Lodge, crowded with celebrities.

For jaded veteran golf writer John Morris and his beautiful globe-trotting lover, Julia Sullivan, it's more than a dramatic story: it's a black eye on golf's most stellar event. Now, as Morris and Sullivan try to solve the murder, they find a collision of ambition, talent, and greed that reaches from the golden days of Hollywood to the windswept Monterey Peninsula—where a killer's game has just begun...

John Logue's six previous novels include three other Morris and Sullivan mysteries, The Feathery Touch of Death, Murder on the Links, and Follow the Leader, in which Morris and Sullivan debuted and which received an Edgar Award nomination for best first novel. John Logue worked as a sportswriter for ten years at The Atlanta Journal and was creative director of Southern Living. He lives in Birmingham, Alabama.