The acclaimed author of Laid Dead presents another fast-paced mystery, featuring Inspector Angus Straun, whose penchant for golf and sports cars can keep things lively. Straun plays host to a visiting African head of state whose desire to build Africa's first golf course clashes lethally with a sophisticated trade in smuggled cars.
Asked by his ex-wife to warn a well-known con man from trying to dupe her new boyfriend, Inspector Angus Straun witnesses a fatal accident to the boyfriend's partner on the golf course. Before long, it is Straun's life that is at risk.
In this crime novel set in the world of golf, someone has ploughed up a green at the Royal West Wessex days before a major tournament. Then there is a body in a bunker and Inspector Angus Straun's escape from routine threatens to become a nightmare.
Invited to participate in a Pro-Am tournament at a Hebridean castle-hotel, golfing Inspector Angus Straun discovers mystery and murder past, present and future - the destined future victim being himself. The author has also written "Dead Ball".
While bodyguarding the golf-mad President of an African state, Angus Straun stumbles on the secret behind the theft of his own and other valuable cars. Surviving a coup attempt, Straun is left to work out the role of the mysterious ginger-headed man in all this.
Stranded in a lonely Lincolnshire village, Inspector Angus Straun is glad to join a veteran American bomber pilot in a nostalgic game of golf. The game, however, ends in death and Straun finds himself drawn into a bizarre replay of wartime passions. By the author of "Winter Rules".
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