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Nasty Breaks by Aaron Elkins, Charlotte Elkins

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3.0

This continues the series 'starring' Lee Ofsted, semi-pro golfer. She has been asked by a good friend to replace the originally-scheduled pro at a workshop/conference being done by a salvage company for its management employees.

On her very first day, the wife of the owner is nearly kidnapped. Following that rather bizarre occurrence, Lee calls in her boyfriend who has stopped being a cop and is now running his own security firm. Graham arrives to advise the owner and the rest of the people in the company on what to do to keep safe, and he also speaks to the police officers about suspects in the kidnapping.

Then someone actually dies, and all the secrets from the past start revealing themselves. This company is actually a perfect example of Why Nepotism is Bad Thing: everyone is either related or an old friend of everyone else. And it all comes down to what happened in the first salvage operation ever done by these individuals, an event during which their first partner died in an underwater accident.

Interesting stuff about salvage that I never knew. The business stuff was kind of fun too, but over all, I'll stick with switching authors for awhile as mentioned above.
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