title: Stall Turns
author: Haines, Penelope
description: Commercial pilot Claire Hardcastle returns. Having survived her second adventure in Straight and Level, she and boyfriend Detective Sergeant Jack Body are off on a well-deserved holiday in the back country of New Zealand. What could possibly go wrong? Getting lost on the way to their destination seems a minor inconvenience until Claire unwittingly stumbles across human remains in a swamp. Before she knows it, Claire is caught up in a mystery she just can't leave alone.Over several action-packed days, Claire needs to survive not only a natural disaster, but an increasingly dangerous series of events, while trying to uncover the mystery of just who was hidden in the swamp. Will curiosity get the better of her this time? Stall Turns is the third novel in the Claire Hardcastle Mystery series set in New Zealand, following Claire's adventures as a commercial pilot, flying instructor and accidental detective.