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WHAT TO GIVE FOR
A PRESENT? WHAT
ABOUT A NOVEL?

Can't think of what to give the man or woman in your life for his or her birthday?
What better than a new book with a golf theme.
Here's one to consider:

DEATH IN THE ROUGH
and other short stories

By TONY SHEAD
Published by Book Guilding Publishing in paperback, price £9.99 (241 pages).

"We found Edward Grayling dead in a wood on the golf course this morning ... looked like murder!"
Edward Grayling's death is just one of the mystifying and intriguing scenarios in Tony Shead's eagerly-awaited second collection of short stories.
Tony Shead takes a cast of unsuspecting characters and places them in the midst of unfolding dramas in various locations around the world. The result is a beautifully-crafted collection of stories exploring the darker side of human nature.
Read them and uncover the chilling consequences when:

+A trophy goes missing from a Hong Kong social club.
+A mysterious girl turns up at the doorstep of a famous film star.
+An Anglo-Russian business deal goes sour.
+A safari holiday turns into a potentially fatal, entangled menage a trois.

Murder, blackmail, intrigue and revenge are the catalysts that propel these apparently simple tales into insghtful, haunting and disturbing stories.
Tony Shead explores the darker side of human nature and shows us that even the most ordinary of people can behave in extraordinary ways when they are confronted by the unexpected.
Death in the Rough belongs to the finest tradition of the British short story and - as in all great story-telling - the final twist of each tale perturbs us by confirming that nothing is ever quite as it seems.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Tony Shead is also the author of one novel, Travelling Hopefully, and a previous volume of short stories, After the Iceberg - both published by Book Guild. Tony Shead lives in Greatbridge, near Romsey in Hampshire.