Cut Shot Synopsis

Even though Jack Austin has not won a single tournament in his ten years on the PGA Tour, life is good. He's engaged to Lisa Trembley, a beautiful CBS golf analyst, he's making a good living, and he still believes in what the game stands for: honesty and integrity. Like a snap hook out of nowhere, however, Jack's world comes crashing down around him.

At a tournament in Arizona, rookie and two-time winner Hutch Gainer reveals to Jack that a Mafia-run Gambling ring has invaded the Tour & and Hutch is in the middle of it. The reverse of a point-shaving scheme, Hutch is being mysteriously blackmailed into playing poorly and adding strokes to his scores. Worse yet, the person being cheated is Hutch's sponsor, a ruthless New Orleans Mafia member who had helped the young pro early in his career.

Angry at first, Jack refuses to help the player. But after Lisa gets wind of the story and goes looking for answers, Jack is forced to get involved in an attempt to prevent a scandal. When Hutch's sponsor turns up dead, and the rookie is arrested for murder, Jack enters the underworld in order to solve the crime, protect Lisa, and save the game he loves.

In the tradition and writing style of Raymond Chandler, John R. Corrigan's Cut Shot is a 1940's thriller set in present day. Put another way, it's "Phillip Marlowe Meets The PGA Tour."

And that's all you need to know.

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Snap Hook Synopsis

The second volume in an exciting series that "deftly combines life in professional golf's sunny top tiers with the dark world of life-or-death sleuthing."

What Dick Francis does for horseracing, John R. Corrigan does for professional golf in his crime novels featuring Jack Austin, a native of Maine and a player on the PGA Tour. Now, with Snap Hook, the first book in the new Hardscrabble Crime series, Corrigan takes Austin deeper into the world of pro golf. 
The Russian Mafia has long had its claws in North American professional sports - and in Snap Hook, it's moving to the PGA Tour. Veteran Tour player Jack Austin has enough to worry about with a balky putter and a rookie caddie's disadvantaged teen who, like Austin himself, suffers from dyslexia. Winless in ten seasons on the Tour, Austin's putting woes and ensuing poor scores could now cost him his eligibility.

When an infant is kidnapped, however, Austin goes after his friend's baby. Soon he comes face to face with Nikoli Silcandrov, a renegade Russian mobster who needs to launder a great deal of money. Austin's final showdown is with PGA Tour superstar Phil Mickelson, when the two go toe-to-toe at the Buick Classic.

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 Center Cut Synopsis

A new Jack Austin mystery - the exciting follow-up to Snap Hook.

"Imagine a wise-cracking Tiger Woods as Sherlock Holmes," says best-selling novelist Tess Gerritsen. "That's the sort of lovable hero John Corrigan has created in this new mystery series." Corrigan once again captures life and death on the PGA Tour in his new mystery featuring Jack Austin, native of Maine and professional golfer.

After narrowly missing his first tournament win at the conclusion of Snap Hook, Jack has begun a new season in the worst slump of his career. Since he now has a family to support, the slump couldn’t come at a worse time. But as Jack battles back to his usual level of play, his friend Grant Ashley faces a more serious problem.

Grant's new wife, the young and beautiful Lynne is also abrasive, unpleasant . . . and missing. Her husband is clearly more concerned than he wants to admit, but he refuses to call the police. Jack and his friend Perkins, security consultant to the Tour, are determined to look for the missing woman, but it is an investigation destined to lead to secrets, betrayals, lies, and ultimately murder.

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 Bad Lie Synopsis

Pro golfer Jack Austin returns in a mystery that hits close to home.

PGA Tour pro Jack Austin promised former caddy and surrogate son Nash Henley he would help him find his biological father. But before Nash and his father are ever reunited, Owen Henley is murdered--and Nash's dream of knowing his real father dies with him. Now Nash wants to know who his father was and why he was killed. And Jack intends to keep his promise. 
In Bad Lie, readers see why Mystery Scene calls Austin "the perfect narrator, observant but not omnipotent, confident, but painfully aware of his flaws." Jack is coming off his first PGA Tour victory and striving to reach golf's top echelon. But Nash's request leads Jack on a tour of Owen Henley's past and into an international smuggling scheme. 
Plot twists abound in Bad Lie. Readers follow Austin from the fairways of the PGA Tour to a foursome on a wooded golf course in northern Maine. There, the stakes exceed any purse played for on tour, and with a single gunshot, the Jack Austin series changes forever.

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Out of Bounds Synopsis

How far will a golfer in decline go to maintain his family's lifestyle, and why are PGA Tour players who are associated with one equipment manufacturer being killed off? In Out of Bounds, veteran PGA Tour player and reluctant sleuth Jack Austin uncovers some disturbing answers.

Austin has built his career on 300-yard tee shots. But as younger, stronger players enter the game, he finds that the pack is catching up. He's not the only player to feel the heat; his middle-aged friend Hal Hurricane McCarthy has been struggling to hold on for several seasons. Lately, however, McCarthy and a few other players have enjoyed significant--even mysterious--improvements in their play. Some are hitting the ball farther than they ever have; in McCarthy's case, the famously hot-headed player now exhibits uncharacteristic calm and control in his putting game. At least one golfer, Richie Barter, is convinced that these improvements are the result of performance-enhancing drug use--and he tells his theory to USA Today. As a new member of the PGA Tour Policy Board, Jack finds himself drawn into one of the worst scandals ever to hit the sport.

Meanwhile, Jack's best friend, Darcy Perkins, a security consultant for the Tour, is slowly recovering from a recent shooting. Depressed, neglecting his family, and fearing for his job, Perkins asks Jack to travel to Chicago on his behalf to follow up on a police investigation into a golfer's death. The official story is that Ron Scott was the victim of a mugging, but both Perkins and an associate on the Chicago force have their doubts. As Jack tries to help his friend, he finds himself drawn into two investigations that may turn out to be linked.

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