115 (A5) pages. Published as limited-edition paperback in October 2013.
Version for Amazon Kindle published December 2013. The Body in the Bunker (UK) The Body in the Bunker (USA)
The first Inspector Coarse story.
A gruesome discovery is made at Heronswood Golf Course as a groundsman uncovers a body partially concealed in one of the sand bunkers.
The victim is a prominent golfer, his head crushed by a blunt instrument. Why was he murdered, and where is his golf partner? And why is a helicopter hovering overhead as the investigation begins?
The urbane Chief Inspector Coarse and his faithful sidekick, Sergeant Gooey, attempt to unravel the mystery. It becomes clear that the rules of golf are somehow involved . . .
Front cover image by the talented Joan Wooll (Kings Lynn, Norfolk).
185 (A5) pages.
Version for Amazon Kindle published November 2014. The Golfer Who Danced To Death (UK) The Golfer Who Danced To Death (USA)
The second Inspector Coarse story.
There is a shock at Heronswood Golf-Course when a little-fancied golfer unexpectedly wins the annual Club Championship.
By the following morning, the new champion is dead, apparently by natural causes.
Chief Inspector Coarse believes that there has been foul play. Join Coarse and his faithful Sergeant Gooey as the two attempt to unravel the cause of death through a smokescreen of laboratory reports and fraud.
Front cover image by the talented Joan Wooll (Kings Lynn, Norfolk).
177 (A5) pages.
Version for Amazon Kindle published March 2015. Deadly at Golf (UK) Deadly at Golf (USA)
The third Inspector Coarse story.
The champion is playing a demonstration round of golf at Heronswood Golf Course, while amateur golfer John Halstead tests secret electronic equipment in the Heronswood car-park.
Within hours the amateur is dead, killed in an unconvincing car-crash. The secret device has been stolen.
The agency of a hostile foreign power is suspected. Join Coarse and his faithful Sergeant Gooey as the two attempt to solve the mystery, without being allowed to state for what they are searching!
Front cover image by the talented Joan Wooll (Kings Lynn, Norfolk).