Womens Golf

Texas girl Babe Didrikson never tried a sport too tough and never met a hurdle too high. Despite attempts to keep women from competing, Babe achieved All-American status in basketball and won gold medals in track and field at the 1932 Olympics. Then, Babe attempted to conquer golf. One of the founders of the LPGA, Babe won more consecutive tournaments than any golfer in history. But at the height of her fame, she was diagnosed with cancer. Babe would then take her most daring step of all....

Some people might say that, at age 46 Jane "Par" Parker is too old to win golf tournaments, too old to fear her mother, and too old, after twenty years, to still feel heavy grief over the murder of her father. But Par has an obsessively tight grip on the past, and no one can tell her to live her life otherwise. Par is maniacally driven to win a golf tournament she hasn't been able to win in ten years. Recent low-scoring rounds have strengthened her confidence....

Auf Capri wird auf einem Felsvorsprung über dem Meer eine Frau tot aufgefunden. Maria Grifo war die Leiterin des berühmten Konservatoriums von Neapel. Hat der Mord womöglich mit dem Verschwinden der einzigartigen Stradivari-Harfe aus ihrem Institut zu tun? Ihr Klang – erfahren die Inselpolizisten Enrico Rizzi und Antonia Cirillo – ist von einer Schönheit, für die manche Menschen töten würden.

Lee Ofsted has been hired to teach golf to the executives of a local salvage company on the bucolic Block Island. The setting is lovely, and the $1,000 a day salary will go a long way toward covering her expenses during her third year on the pro tour. But will it be compensation enough for solving a murder?