Nasty Breaks

By: Charlotte Elkins, Aaron Elkins

Narrated by: Susan O'Malley

Lee Ofsted has been hired to teach golf to the executives of a local salvage company on 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 200 years, to a sunken treasure ship that went down in these very waters.

©1997 Charlotte and Aaron Elkins (P)1997 Blackstone Audio Inc.

Critic reviews

"Amateur detectives come in all guises: why not a struggling female golf pro?....There are some genuinely funny scenes here, and O'Malley reads as if she's in on the joke. She also brings out Ofsted's intelligence and courage. This is lightweight fare, competently served." (AudioFile)

Lee Ofsted 3: Another good golf murder mystery

It starts with a treasure hunt - that turns deadly. Three men on the boat find a wreck holding treasure, and one insists on going down again, but the weather turns and they need to bring him back before a storm hits. Problem is his line seems snagged. They cut it to give him a slim chance but it isn't enough. One of the two buys out the other and becomes filthy rich. The other becomes a modest success, owning a resort.
Peg tempts Lee into teaching at a corporate golf retreat --the corporation is the one the man who became rich founded. The resort is the one owned by his old partner. Of course, there is soon a murder -- the rich partner. Suspects abound. His wife is almost kidnapped right off the golf course, until Lee intervenes, but the woman is critical rather than grateful. The guy he just promoted to lead the company is a bean-counting slave driver. Another employee who was actually a diver who helped recover the fortune is passed over for the promotion. A female employee is a relative. What starts out as a group of unrelated coworkers seems to turn into a tangle of relationships, and as usual, Lee gets in the middle and the killer is watching...