Series: A Pelican Shores Cozy Mystery
The Book:
Finn Dockrey already has plenty going on in Pelican Shores. Things with Detective Pace Stringfellow are heating up, her best friend Birdie has a pan of pumpkin streusel bars in the oven, and Tory McGee has talked a flock of glamorous international visitors into modeling her new Tide & Brim hat line. Then the island's estate dealer, Kitty Kelley, turns up dead.
The visitors don't seem all that interested in hats. They keep asking about old paintings, jewelry, and the big island estates, and they know each other a lot better than they let on. When Finn hears the name von Röemer, a family of legendary thieves, along with rumors that two lost treasures have surfaced somewhere on the island, Kitty's death starts to look like part of something much bigger.
Kitty didn't leave many friends behind. An angry son says she cheated his family out of a priceless first-edition Hemingway. Her loyal right-hand man has a hole in his alibi. And then there are the hat people. Finn's dog, Beau, and Birdie's cat, Queen Bean, are on the case too, and the deeper Finn digs, the clearer it gets that somebody wants her to stop.
Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (66 ratings)
What Readers Are Saying: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Readers should be prepared to give up sleep, you won't want to stop reading." — SusanneD
Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars on Goodreads (33 ratings)
“A hat line nobody asked for, a flock of “models” who’d rather talk about estate jewelry, and a dead dealer with a long list of people she cheated. If you’ve always suspected tourists of being up to something, Pelican Shores agrees with you.”
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