25800 Carlos Bee Blvd, Hayward, CA 94542, United States
Charlotte studied at California State University in Hayward, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in 1972.
1 Washington Sq, San Jose, CA 95192, United States
Charlotte earned a Master of Library and Information Science at San Jose State University in 1979.
25800 Carlos Bee Blvd, Hayward, CA 94542, United States
Charlotte studied at California State University in Hayward, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in 1972.
1 Washington Sq, San Jose, CA 95192, United States
Charlotte earned a Master of Library and Information Science at San Jose State University in 1979.
(In this first Lee Ofsted mystery, Lee is a "rabbit" golfe...)
In this first Lee Ofsted mystery, Lee is a "rabbit" golfer in the Pacific-Western Women's Pro-Am. She made it into the tournament by the skin of her teeth and suddenly she can't keep her long drives from slicing--veering sharply to the right. She is hitting the ball perfectly and it simply isn't going where it is supposed to. And if Lee can't get rid of this slice quickly, all the scraping and saving to enter the tournament and stay in it, all the Big Macs and cheap motels, will be for nothing.
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1989
(Rotten Lies is set against a backdrop of high-society cou...)
Rotten Lies is set against a backdrop of high-society country-clubbers, low-society golfers, and the travails of earning a living on the professional golf tour.
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1995
(The golf course on bucolic Block Island has only nine hol...)
The golf course on bucolic Block Island has only nine holes, its fairways are swaths of meadow open to gusty sea breezes, and the "greens" are just compacted sand. Surprisingly, Lee Ofsted, there to teach golf to the executives of a local salvage company, doesn't mind. The setting is lovely, the rustic inn at which she is staying is charming, and the pay - $1,000 a day - will go a long way toward covering her expenses during her third year on the pro tour. but will it be compensation enough for solving a murder?
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1997
(If there is one thing the young golfer Lee Ofsted doesn't...)
If there is one thing the young golfer Lee Ofsted doesn't have on her mind, it is her chances of being selected for the Stewart Cup Tournament--the competition that pits the greatest American golfers, male and female, against their British counterparts. Lee is on no one's list of the 'greatest American golfers,' so it comes as a surprise when the great Roger Finley, captain of the American team, invites her to play.
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2004
(Lee Ofsted and Graham Sheldon, her ex-cop fiance, have de...)
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.
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2005
(Alix London has a promising career as an art consultant, ...)
Alix London has a promising career as an art consultant, a sumptuous condo in Seattle’s toniest neighborhood, a gorgeous figure, and a presence that exudes Ivy League breeding and old money. She has it all…or does she? Only Alix knows that the image she presents to the world is a carefully constructed mirage that veils an embarrassing truth. A brilliant, once-promising art student, the daughter of a prominent New York art conservator, her world was left in ruins when her father went to prison for art forgery. Now a Harvard dropout with an emptied bank account, she is languishing in a career that has produced little more than a lucky house-sitting gig.
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2012
(This should be the cushiest job Alix London’s ever had. T...)
This should be the cushiest job Alix London’s ever had. The second Alix London mystery finds the art restorer in a world brimming with idle luxury, spectacular locations, and deadly intrigue. Surrounded by art and wealth and the sun-drenched Greek isles, she’s aboard a sumptuous mega-yacht with no responsibilities save the occasional lecture to the guests of her temporary employer, Panos Papadakis, one of the world's richest men. But there’s a catch: Papadakis has long been suspected of being at the center of a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme and Alix is actually there as an undercover operative of FBI special agent Ted Ellesworth, a member of the Bureau’s Art Crime Team. They hope Alix can gather the inside information they need to finally put the cagey Papadakis away.
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2013
(When art conservator Alix London spots a forgery, she kno...)
When art conservator Alix London spots a forgery, she knows trouble will follow. So she’s understandably apprehensive when her connoisseur’s eye spots something off about a multimillion-dollar Jackson Pollock painting at Palm Springs’s Brethwaite Museum—her current employer. Alix is already under fire, the object of a vicious online smear campaign. Now the Brethwaite’s despicable senior curator, obsessed with the “maximization of monetized eyeballs,” angrily refuses to decommission the celebrated Pollock piece.
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2014
(Alix London, the art restorer and FBI consultant renowned...)
Alix London, the art restorer and FBI consultant renowned as the Art Whisperer, can spot a counterfeit masterpiece before the paint even dries. What she can’t see is why an elite European art dealer would offer her big money for a little mirror that’s no more than a homemade gift from her beloved uncle Tiny. Not that Alix would part with it at any price. But when the mirror is abruptly stolen from her home, she realizes that someone sees more in the looking glass than mere sentimental value. When her uncle Tiny disappears mysteriously just after the mirror is stolen, the simple art theft becomes a personal and professional challenge Alix can’t ignore.
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2016
Charlotte Elkins was born on July 4, 1948 in Houston, Texas, into the family of George Jean and Elizabeth Shirley Trangmar. Her father was an itinerant carpenter and the family moved frequently, living mostly in the southwest and Southern California.
Charlotte studied at California State University in Hayward, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in 1972. Then she earned a Master of Library and Information Science at San Jose State University in 1979.
Before becoming a full-time writer, Charlotte was a self-employed artist, secondary school teacher, and the librarian of American art at the M.H. de Young Museum in San Francisco from 1980 - 1981. Elkins started her career in 1981 writing five mass-market romance novels for Mills & Boone/Harlequin under the pseudonym, Emily Spenser, which were translated and sold in over a dozen countries.
While living near an American Air Force base in Germany, her husband, Aaron, was teaching in the University of Maryland's overseas program for the American military. There they had an opportunity to take golfing lessons.
Charlotte, who loved the golf-themed stories by P.G. Wodehouse, suddenly realized a novice pro golfer would make an interesting protagonist in an amateur detective novel and "Lee Ofsted" was born. "A Wicked Slice" was published in 1989, Publishers Weekly called it an "engagingly humorous thriller." Encouraged, over the years the Elkins wrote four more "Lee Ofsteds: Rotten Lies" (1995), "Nasty Breaks" (1997), "Where have all the Birdies Gone?" (2004), and "On the Fringe" (2005). In 1996, they co-authored the "Cumberland Cup Mystery Game", the first plot for Time Warner Electronic Publishing's Modus Operandi.
Currently, Charlotte is working with Aaron on their new mystery series about "the art whisperer," Alix London, in a venture that takes Charlotte back to her roots in the world of fine art.
(If there is one thing the young golfer Lee Ofsted doesn't...)
2004(Lee Ofsted and Graham Sheldon, her ex-cop fiance, have de...)
2005(Alix London has a promising career as an art consultant, ...)
2012(The golf course on bucolic Block Island has only nine hol...)
1997(Rotten Lies is set against a backdrop of high-society cou...)
1995(Alix London, the art restorer and FBI consultant renowned...)
2016(In this first Lee Ofsted mystery, Lee is a "rabbit" golfe...)
1989(When art conservator Alix London spots a forgery, she kno...)
2014(This should be the cushiest job Alix London’s ever had. T...)
2013Quotations: “Aaron and I don’t collaborate in the usual sense. We don’t sit across a desk and ask each other: 'What’s next?’ For the golf series I’m the creative person. It’s my plot, setting, and characters, and Aaron’s the in-house editor — actually in-house ghost writer is more like it. I give him ten pages and he gives me back twenty. So we rarely have disagreements (helpful when you’re also married to your coauthor). Aaron loves polishing words and I enjoy doing the golf research — especially on the course. It’s a perfect division of labor, and I’m hoping we can take Lee all the way from young ‘rabbit’ golfer to stardom, to the Senior Tour, with lots of ups and downs and literary mayhem along the way.”
Charlotte is married to the writer Aaron Elkins.
