Virtual Handicap — Mary Branscombe

It's time for misadventure golf as Cassidy Smith heads to Florida to help an old friend whose virtual golf project is producing real dead bodies...

Cassidy Smith. Geekier than you. Troubleshooter (see trouble, shoot trouble). She's never met an interesting problem she didn't want to solve. But some problems have teeth.

BONUS STORY
Also includes Love In A Time Of Spoilers - a Cassidy Smith mini techno-mystery
Notes from a meeting on very personal security, where Cassidy explains to her college friend Rafe why his latest scheme is going to need to be very trustworthy computing indeed.

No alligators, golf carts, VR headsets, RFID chips or companion robots were harmed in the writing of these stories.