Michael Murphy

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  • Bibliography:
    45 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1972
  • Latest Book:
    November 2023
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Full Series List in Order

A Jake & Laura Mystery

1 - The Yankee Club (Aug-2014)
2 - All That Glitters (Jan-2015)
3 - Wings in the Dark (Jul-2015)
4 - The Big Brush-off (Feb-2016)

Lucas Nash

1 - The Halo Conspiracy (Apr-2021)

Book List in Order: 45 titles

  • Golf in the Kingdom

    While on his way to India, Michael Murphy, founder of the Esalen Institute, stopped in Scotland to play a round of golf at the famous Burningbush course. There he met Shivas Irons, golf pro and mystic, and in a single day and night he had his life --...

  • Jacob Atabet

    • / Science Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    A spiritual thriller by the bestselling author of Golf in the Kingdom As publisher, writer, and researcher, Darwin Fall has gathered a wide range of evidence for human nature's supernormal capacitiesbut his photographs and case stories can on...

  • The Kingdom of Shivas Irons

    Michael Murphy's Golf in the Kingdom is one of the bestselling golf books of all time and has been hailed as "a golf classic if any exists in our day" (John Updike) and "a masterpiece on the mysticism of golf" (San Francisco Chronicle).  Go...

  • The Greens

    This is the story of a man raised in the upper middle class that everyone had high expectations of. Instead, he falls to the point where he meets a woman living in a low income community and decides to share her experience. The contrast and conclusio...

  • My Brother Sam Is Dead

    Use Novel-Ties ® study guides as your total guided reading program. Reproducible pages in chapter-by-chapter format provide you with the right questions to ask, the important issues to discuss, and the organizational aids that help students get the ...

  • Ramblin' Man

  • She Dreams of Heaven

    Christine, born of a witch healer and incubus father, struggles with her powers as she grows up and realizes that her Father just might be Satan himself. Does the devil's daughter succumb to his temptations of supreme power or does she become the uns...

  • Zak's Dream Machine

    Can a person die from dreaming? A modern secret shaman transforms into his boyhood self through the power of dreaming to rescue his nephew's soul from sorcerers colluding with their otherworldly allies. Michael, the hero, confronts the soul collector...

  • Survive The Great Inflation



  • A Description Of The Blazing World

    After Morgan Wells’s wife leaves him, a postcard from France arrives. It is addressed to a Morgan Wells -- but not the Morgan Wells who receives it. Desperate to be led out of his despair, Morgan decides to read the postcard as a sign and embark up...

  • Scorpion Bay

    When a car bomb kills the prosecuting attorney and a key witness against a powerful bioengineering industrialist, the blast shatters the life of the attorney's husband, popular Phoenix television investigative reporter, Parker Knight. After authoriti...

  • An End to Ordinary History

    Golf in the Kingdom author Michael Murphy’s Cold War thriller, based on true events Someone is tracking Darwin Fall, a scholar whose expertise in supernormal powers is second to none. As Darwin begins a search of his own for the legendary Soviet...

  • Saving Grace

    This drama is set on a tropical island where Jason and Tallie come to terms with the elements and their own feelings....

  • Spare Time

    Turmoil in the Middle East. Economic crisis in Europe. Violations of the Constitution in the United States. Division, fear, entitlements, and class envy are tearing the nation he loves apart. Why doesn't someone do something about it? If efforts are ...

  • Little Squirrels Can Climb Tall Trees

  • Breaking News

  • Goodbye Emily

    Two years after the death of his wife Emily from cancer, a college professor faces his own life-threatening illness, broken-heart syndrome. Adding to his grief, a bean counting administrator has kicked him into early retirement, his daughter is con...

  • Book Fair

  • When Dachshunds Ruled the Serengeti



  • It Should Have Been You

  • The House of Pure Being

    Michael Murphy's second volume of prose, The House of Pure Being, charts the author's experiences and revelations since the release of his best-selling memoir, At Five in the Afternoon. In this sequel, he brings the inspiring stories of his w...

  • Starnet

    A new technology that is not well understood is transforming the world industry by industry. Now it is poised to bring humankind to the stars. Amelia Gravis, a precocious mid-teen, never able to accept "It just works!" for an answer, rejects the glos...

  • Walls That Divide

  • Swan Song for an Ugly Duckling

    Aaron and Josh come from extraordinarily different backgrounds in small town America. Aaron is the only child of a fundamentalist preacher who fears and condemns the ways of the world outside their community. Josh is a jock who can only seem to expre...

  • You Can't Go Home Again

    In work and in love, life has taught seasoned police officer Jack that closeness only leads to pain. But Jack is wracked with guilt when his rookie partner Kevin is shot during an undercover assignment and dies in his arms. Why didn''t he take the ti...

  • Try and Catch the Wind

    Former New York City police detective Casey Bannister is shattered by memories of the death of his wife. His taken refuge in a small town but proves that no place is safe. A young woman's body is found in a wood chipper. Clue after clue is found ...

  • The Yankee Club

    A Jake & Laura Mystery - 1

    In Michael Murphy’s action-packed Prohibition-era novel of suspense, a mystery writer returns to the bright lights and dark alleys of New York City -- uncovering a criminal conspiracy of terrifying proportions.   In 1933, America is at a cross...

  • Mano's Story

    Sequel to Little Squirrels Can Climb Tall Trees Mano and Jake, friends since childhood, are each the brother that the other never had, hermanos. It doesn’t matter that Mano is gay and Jake is straight. They have each other's backs. When he grow...

  • All That Glitters

    A Jake & Laura Mystery - 2

    In Michael Murphy’s rollicking new Jake & Laura mystery, the hard-boiled writer and the aspiring movie star head for sun-drenched Los Angeles, where a cold-blooded murderer lurks behind the scenes.   Just arrived from New York, Broadway ac...



  • Evac

  • Wings in the Dark

    A Jake & Laura Mystery - 3

    Witty and stylish in the classic Dashiell Hammett tradition, Michael Murphy’s latest high-flying Jake & Laura mystery features a Hawaiian honeymoon that’s interrupted when their friend Amelia Earhart is accused of murder.   Hawaii, 1935....

  • Michael Murphy's Greatest Hits

  • The President's Husband

    When an assassin''s bullet strikes his predecessor, Grayson Alexander becomes the first openly gay President of the United States and his husband, David Hammond, becomes the first openly gay First Husband. With their world turned upside down, David r...

  • The Big Brush-off

    A Jake & Laura Mystery - 4

    The irresistible Jake & Laura return in Michael Murphy’s witty, fast-paced mystery series -- perfect for readers of Dorothy Cannell and Christopher Fowler. In The Big Brush-off, the charming and indomitable duo heads to the Midwest to solve a c...

  • A Night at the Ariston Baths

    In rural Pennsylvania, Theodore McCall lives on his family''s farm and works as a clerk at the local general store. While his best friend, Martin Fuller, thrives in New York City, Theodore trudges through life. But on New Year''s Eve, 1902, Theodore'...

  • Love in the Line of Fire

    Agent Jonah Pratt heads the Secret Service team guarding the President''s husband. When a routine day turns into a dangerous assassination attempt, the stranger who dives into the melee and takes down the assassin complicates the situation, sparking ...

  • The 5 Percenter

  • Stranger in a Foreign Land

    Dreamspun Desires - 61

    Losing his old life and finding a new love. After an accident stole his memory, the only home American businessman Patrick knows is Bangkok. He recovers under the tender ministrations of Jack, an Australian expat who works nights at a pineapple canne...

  • Elsie's Story

    "Elsie germs!" shouted the boy as he raced across the school yard looking for someone to "pass" the "germs" onto. Elsie stood alone and helpless as she saw this cruel "game" begin once again. Wouldn't anyone stand up for her? Would someone be her her...



  • HUESLANDIA

    Travel to the fictional country of Hueslandia. Discover the history of the Hueslandians and find out how they were able to overcome evil and live up to the better angels of their nature. Hueslandia became a nation populated by people of many differen...

  • When I Fell

  • The Halo Conspiracy

    Lucas Nash - 1

    In mid-twenty-first century, solving murders hasn't become any easier. Cutting edge science has created more opportunities for crime than offered solutions. A ruthless technology company threatens to reveal Project Halo, a scientific breakthrough tha...

  • Kane's Guest Book

    A ruthless, greedy ship captain.An assassin's intrigue.A ferocious battle with the Tlingit.In 1795, Russia dominates the Pacific fur trade. Cultures clash on every shore as explorers sail the unknown waters of Pacific North America.Brothers Grigori a...

  • Coin of the Realm

    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Timothy Mitchell worked his way from humble beginnings to graduate school in Washington, DC. The end is in sight-but so are his funds. Determined not to let his dream slip through his fingers, Timothy goes from part-time jobs to modeling for art clas...

  • Edizione straordinaria

    • / General Fiction
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Michael Murphy has published 45 books.

Michael Murphy does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Kane's Guest Book, was published in November 2023.

The first book by Michael Murphy, Golf in the Kingdom, was published in May 1972.

Yes. Michael Murphy has 2 series.
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