Murder on Hilton Head Island
(2025)(A book in the Maplewood Bay Cozy Mystery series)
A Story by Kaylynn Smith
A Beach Vacation, a B&B Inheritance'' and a Body Scout Couldn’t Ignore.
Blakely Monroe, number-crunching city accountant and reluctant future innkeeper, only agreed to a Hilton Head Island getaway because her cheerful (and extremely chatty) coworker Marnie Tolliver insisted. But their toes barely hit the sand before Marnie’s dog, Scout, sniffs out a corpse... and suddenly their beach escape becomes a crime scene.
The dearly departed? Laurel Parsons: real estate shark, serial heartbreaker, and local menace. The suspects? Colt Davis, the tattooed bartender. Ruth Beecham, a granny with a steely glare. And Vanessa Hoyle, the overly helpful vacation rental manager who’s drowning in debt.
Worse, Marnie’s argument with Laurel has her looking guiltier than a dog caught in the snack cabinet.
Now Blakely must trade spreadsheets for sleuthing, dodge red herrings, survive the Hilton Head gossip mill, and follow Scout’s nose. Marnie is being followed.
Blakely must solve the case before Marnie ends up in jail, or someone else ends up dead.
Genre: Mystery
Blakely Monroe, number-crunching city accountant and reluctant future innkeeper, only agreed to a Hilton Head Island getaway because her cheerful (and extremely chatty) coworker Marnie Tolliver insisted. But their toes barely hit the sand before Marnie’s dog, Scout, sniffs out a corpse... and suddenly their beach escape becomes a crime scene.
The dearly departed? Laurel Parsons: real estate shark, serial heartbreaker, and local menace. The suspects? Colt Davis, the tattooed bartender. Ruth Beecham, a granny with a steely glare. And Vanessa Hoyle, the overly helpful vacation rental manager who’s drowning in debt.
Worse, Marnie’s argument with Laurel has her looking guiltier than a dog caught in the snack cabinet.
Now Blakely must trade spreadsheets for sleuthing, dodge red herrings, survive the Hilton Head gossip mill, and follow Scout’s nose. Marnie is being followed.
Blakely must solve the case before Marnie ends up in jail, or someone else ends up dead.
Genre: Mystery
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