Competition Can Be Murder — Connie Shelton

Charlie Parker and her husband, Drake, leave sunny New Mexico for a lucrative contract in Scotland, flying helicopters to the North Sea oil rigs. It's tough enough coping with the temperamental Scottish weather, and worse, the escalating hostilities of the union outfitters who service the rigs. Now, Charlie's been asked to help solve a kidnapping.

The victim is the spoiled grandson of the wealthy but down-to-earth owners of Dunworthy Castle, on whose historic grounds Charlie and Drake are residing. As desperately worried grandparents prepare to meet the huge ransom demands, Charlie's got a bad feeling about what looks like an amateurish, though deadly, scheme. Yet the real danger for both Charlie and Drake lies in the stormy gray waters of the Atlantic, where death is cold, lonely and the perfect stalking grounds for murder.