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Title: On the Fringe

Subtitle: A Lee Ofsted Mystery

Author: Aaron Elkins, Charlotte Elkins

Narrator: Julia Farhat

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-13-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

A Lee Ofsted mystery. Lee Ofsted and Graham Sheldon, her ex-cop fiance, have decided to take advantage of the glorious setting of the historic Royal Mauna Kea Golf and Country Club to have a quiet wedding ceremony. But from the start things go awry, partly on account of the influx of treasure hunters determined to find the club's most famous lost possession, the Cumberland Cup, commissioned from the great Louis Comfort Tiffany in 1908. Then real disaster strikes.

During the Centennial Ball, Hamish Wyndham, the ancient and irascible chairman of the club's board of directors, is discovered bludgeoned to death. When the club pro, Wally Crawford, is targeted by the police as the most likely suspect, Lee is dragged into the maelstrom. And it doesn't take her long to turn up a host of suspects, motives, and simmering resentments...

Members Reviews:

Poor editing and lack of consistency continue to plague this series

This is the fifth Lee Ofsted book I've read by Charlotte and Aaron Elkins. Frankly I'm not sure why I kept reading the series. I found these books to be flat, compared to the other series (Alix London and Chris Norgren) written by the Elkins. The formula for all five of them is pretty much the same - somebody dies (usually it's Lee who finds the body but a little different in this book) and Lee and her friend Peg, who has loads of money and can follow Lee around the country, decide they have to poke around and solve the murder. Their usual motivation for trying to solve the murder is that the deceased or a friend or someone else deserves their help in solving the crime.

Of course Lee's boyfriend/fiancé Graham is always in the background telling them not to get involved. He's always able to get involved though because he was once a homicide detective, a fact that all of the local law enforcement officials drawn into each murder seem to be impressed with.

Book 5 and I still don't know anything about Lee's family besides Graham. In one of the books it was mentioned that she had brothers and a mother and father, but very little on them beyond that. You'd think with all of her progress on becoming the 41st woman golfer in the world that it wouldn't be just Peg and Graham and Lou (her caddy) who are important to her or who show up at her events. Even with her wedding supposedly taking place just days away in this book there is absolutely no mention of her family being there for her. We know even less about Graham.

The poor editing continues to be a highly distracting element. At the end of the 4th book in the series Lee mentioned that she was being invited to Hawaii (the set up for this book) for a 70th Club Anniversary. Lo and behold, upon arriving in Hawaii, the Club is now celebrating its Centennial. It gained 30 years in just a few months. During the very last few paragraphs of the book, Lee and Graham have wed, and they are introduced as Mr. & Mrs. Graham Ofsted.

It's hard to read a series that lacks consistency in its story lines and is content to deliver very poorly proofed writing.

The Elkins Achieve a Good Score

As always an enjoyable reading experience by the Elkins with their golfing heroine and her somewhat older best friend.