THE 19TH HOLE

Golf is the sport that polices itself — no referee, just the player's own honesty and a code older than the rules. That self-policing is its glory and its blind spot: where everyone is trusted to call their own faults, the one who won't can hide in plain sight. In these eleven stories, women at the edges of the genteel game — a rules official, a club secretary, a caddie, a handicap keeper — find the wrong the honor system was never built to catch, and decide the code should mean what it says.

Quiet, patient, conscience-driven suspense in the Sidney Sheldon tradition, where the most honorable sport in the world turns its own honor into the perfect cover.