A Tight Lie

Don Dahler

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Huck Doyle is a professional golfer, a PGA “middler” who just manages to hold onto his tour card as he plays the small tournaments on the circuit. He also happens to be the son of a disgraced LAPD cop, a law school grad without a license to practice, and a registered private investigator. When Joniel Baker, a high profile baseball player, claims that he’s been wrongly accused of murder, he asks his friend Doyle to get involved, to fly under the radar and find out things that the police can’t—or won’t.

Though everything about Joniel and his whereabouts on the night of the murder points to his guilt, Huck decides to take on the case, “because he finds murder investigations a nice distraction from the violent and depressing world of the PGA.”

With the speed of Tiger Wood’s swing, Don Dahler has joined the ranks of Tim Green and Mike Lupica in writing riveting mysteries with a dash of sports. Perfect for thriller readers and golf fans, A Tight Lie

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I found out later it was just about the time I spanked an eight-iron to the edge of the number twelve green at the Bob Hope Classic that someone plunged an ordinary table knife into her heart. Six times. That was after whoever the killer was beat her bloody with a Krups cappuccino machine. Her naked body was discovered lying in her own gore in the kitchen of her moderately expensive Santa Monica beachfront apartment, and the medical examiner later determined she'd had rough sex, or been forcibly raped, shortly before she was killed.

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"It's an exciting read! An absolute thriller! Once I started reading it, I could not and did not put it down!" --Bill Evans, author of Category 7

"A terrific hardboiled LA story - with a bonus peek into the world of pro sports." --Lee Child, the New York Times bestselling author of Nothing to Lose

“I hate golf. In fact, it puts me to sleep. But A Tight Lie isn’t some mystery about golf. It’s a sharp, funny, well-crafted thriller about a private investigator who just happens to make pretty good with the sticks. In LA talk: Think Chinatown meets Tin Cup. Dahler had me hooked with his in depth meditations on sports psychology, Pamela Anderson’s breasts, and fine Scotch. Pour yourself a single malt, kick back, and enjoy this notable debut.” --Ace Atkins, author of White Shadow and Wicked City

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DON DAHLER was a war correspondent for ABC-News during the Iraq War and has worked for 20/20, Nightline, Good Morning America, and CNBC. He is currently a news anchor and reporter for WCBS TV in New York and lives in New Jersey.

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A Tight Lie
Don Dahler

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St. Martin's Press
Minotaur/Thomas Dunne Books
March 2009
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ISBN: 9780312383503
ISBN10: 0312383509
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, 304 pages
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