Golf pro Lee Ofsted takes a whack at teaching golf and another whack at solving a murder in her third outing, which follows 1995's Rotten Lies. The fledgling pro's friend, Peg Fiske, wangles her an invitation to assist teaching pro and TV pitchman Jackie Piper at a lovely resort on Block Island, off the coast of Rhode Island. She'll be teaching golf to employees of Sea Recovery Systems, a marine salvage company, who will taking a working vacation at the resort. The job is a plum: the pay is good, the timing coincides with Lee's boyfriend's being out of the country, and Peg, a management consultant, will be there too, working with the same group from SRS. But the perfect working vacation falls apart quickly as the SRS people assemble at the resort. First, Lee interrupts an attempted kidnapping of the wife of SRS's owner, Stuart Chappell. Then Chappell is murdered in a way that suggests revenge. The tangled personal and professional relationships of everyoneSRS employees, the innkeeper, even the local golf proprovide plenty of knots for Lee and Peg to unravel as they probe a murder with ancient and watery roots. Duffers will recognize themselves or someone they know among the amusing approaches the "students" take to hitting a ball as the Elkinses break par with their latest collaboration.
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?
After a bizarre, botched kidnapping of his sexy wife, the owner of the salvage company turns up dead on the beach. Lee soon discovers that nearly every manager at the company has a motive for murder. Plunging into the case, she asks her boyfriend, Graham Sheldon, a former cop, for his expert help. Before long, the two of them are involved in a tale of greed and ambition that stretches back in time almost two hundred years, to a sunken treasure ship that went down in these very waters.
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?
After a bizarre, botched kidnapping of his sexy wife, the owner of the salvage company turns up dead on the beach. Lee soon discovers that nearly every manager at the company has a motive for murder. Plunging into the case, she asks her boyfriend, Graham Sheldon, a former cop, for his expert help. Before long, the two of them are involved in a tale of greed and ambition that stretches back in time almost two hundred years, to a sunken treasure ship that went down in these very waters.
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Product Details
BN ID: | 2940169898736 |
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Publisher: | Blackstone Audio, Inc. |
Publication date: | 06/22/2005 |
Series: | Lee Ofsted , #3 |
Edition description: | Unabridged |