The Country Club Caper — Angus McLean

Nicki Cooper is a fiesty 18 year old who wants nothing more than to be a private eye, but her dad refuses to let her join his detective agency. When a simple theft case comes up at the new Country Club Health Spa and Retreat, and he's out of town, Nicki seizes the opportunity. What else is a girl to do, right? Have a quick nose around, do the business before her dad gets home, bada-boom bada-bing. No problem.

But when someone tries to put her in a ditch, she quickly realises this is no easy job and she's literally in over her head. Soon she's tangling with a deadly hitman, menacing redneck locals and a bull-headed female cop who wants to get her claws into Nicki's dad. As if that's not enough she just can't make up her mind between her first crush, grease monkey Skip, and Rory the smouldering Scottish giant.

With her best mates Maz and Kimmy at her side, a classic blue and silver Capri at the kerb and enough attitude to make a sailor blush, Nicki plunges headlong into what might just be her first and last case ever.

The bodies pile up and the bullets fly as quick as the one-liners in this action-packed debut instalment in the Nicki Cooper Mystery Series.