Hole in One: A Sloan and Crosby Mystery - Hardcover

Detective Chief Inspector C. D. Sloan works in the deceptively quiet town and county of Calleshire, where for many years he’s endured the pressures of his demanding and unreasonable boss and the wearying company of Constable Crosby, Sloan’s all too constant but rarely helpful sidekick. With both these millstones about his neck, Sloan is called in to investigate a most unusual death in his most perplexing case ever. 
    At the Berebury golf course in Calleshire county, golfing beginner Helen Sewell has gone off in search of her wayward ball which she has hit into the dreaded “Hells Bells” bunker.  What she finds there under the soft sand of the course’s steepest bunker is most surprising and unwelcome – a lightly buried corpse.  Now Sloan must unravel a case with more twists and turns than the course itself.|Detective Chief Inspector C. D. Sloan works in the deceptively quiet town and county of Calleshire, where for many years he’s endured the pressures of his demanding and unreasonable boss and the wearying company of Constable Crosby, Sloan’s all too constant but rarely helpful sidekick. With both these millstones about his neck, Sloan is called in to investigate a most unusual death in his most perplexing case ever. 
    At the Berebury golf course in Calleshire county, golfing beginner Helen Sewell has gone off in search of her wayward ball which she has hit into the dreaded ?Hells Bells” bunker.  What she finds there under the soft sand of the course’s steepest bunker is most surprising and unwelcome ? a lightly buried corpse.  Now Sloan must unravel a case with more twists and turns than the course itself.

Catherine Aird is the author of twenty-odd crime novels and story collections, most of which feature Detective Chief Inspector C. D. Sloan. She holds an honorary M. A. from the University of Kent and was made an M.B.E. Her more recent works include Chapter and Hearse (St Martin's Minotaur, 2004) and Amendment of Life (St. Martin's Minotaur, 2003).  She lives in England.