Guest Sleuth Spotlight: Bessie Barr and Death at the Easter Egg Scramble
The kids are hunting Easter eggs at Pelican Shores' City Golf Course. Finn Dockrey shows up expecting coffee, sunshine, and enough pastel chaos to last a lifetime. Instead — a scream from the back nine, and a dead caddy floating in the water hazard next to a plugged-in vintage toaster. Nothing says holiday spirit quite like electrocution before noon.
Best friend Birdie is all in. Beau the dog is sniffing where he absolutely shouldn't. And Queen Bean is carrying herself like she personally outranks the entire police department. The suspect list runs from a sweet-faced dog-walker with a quiet temper to a law student with a grudge to a fellow caddy whose doubled paycheck is looking very suspicious now that his work rival is gone.
This is Pelican Shores — where motives hide beneath the surface, and somebody's always guarding a nasty little secret behind the Easter smiles.
“Death at the Easter Egg Scramble is cozy mystery done exactly right—a holiday weekend, a sun-drenched beach town, a dog who absolutely cannot stay out of trouble, and a murder that hides behind the cheeriest possible façade. Bessie Barr writes community the way it actually feels: warm on the surface and endlessly complicated underneath. Finn Dockrey is exactly the kind of sleuth I want to spend a weekend with.”
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