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Killed at the Kitchen Line
(2026)A Palmetto Island Pickleball Mystery
(The first book in the Kitchen Line Mysteries series)
A novel by Wynn Valentine
Retirement was supposed to mean fewer dead bodies.
After twenty-five years as a forensic accountant, Pepper Ramirez-Flynn moves to Palmetto Island looking for sunshine, pickleball, and a chance to stop untangling other people's financial disasters.
Instead, she finds a corpse.
When a notoriously disliked player collapses during a community pickleball tournament, most residents assume it was an unfortunate accident. Pepper isn't so sure.
Numbers have always talked to her.
And something about Dutch Hargrove's life doesn't add up.
As Pepper starts asking questions, she discovers that beneath Palmetto Island's friendly smiles, neighborhood potlucks, and retirement-community charm lies a web of missing money, buried grudges, and secrets people have spent years protecting. The deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes that someone had a reason to silence Dutch forever.
Now Pepper must follow a trail of financial clues before the killer realizes she's getting too close to the truth.
With help from a patient physicist, a retired racing greyhound, and a best friend who treats privacy as an optional lifestyle choice, Pepper discovers that murder and accounting have more in common than most people realize.
Both leave a paper trail.
Killed at the Kitchen Line is the first book in a warm, witty cozy mystery series featuring a sharp amateur sleuth, a charming coastal community, fair-play clues, and mysteries where following the money is often the fastest path to a killer.
Genre: Mystery
After twenty-five years as a forensic accountant, Pepper Ramirez-Flynn moves to Palmetto Island looking for sunshine, pickleball, and a chance to stop untangling other people's financial disasters.
Instead, she finds a corpse.
When a notoriously disliked player collapses during a community pickleball tournament, most residents assume it was an unfortunate accident. Pepper isn't so sure.
Numbers have always talked to her.
And something about Dutch Hargrove's life doesn't add up.
As Pepper starts asking questions, she discovers that beneath Palmetto Island's friendly smiles, neighborhood potlucks, and retirement-community charm lies a web of missing money, buried grudges, and secrets people have spent years protecting. The deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes that someone had a reason to silence Dutch forever.
Now Pepper must follow a trail of financial clues before the killer realizes she's getting too close to the truth.
With help from a patient physicist, a retired racing greyhound, and a best friend who treats privacy as an optional lifestyle choice, Pepper discovers that murder and accounting have more in common than most people realize.
Both leave a paper trail.
Killed at the Kitchen Line is the first book in a warm, witty cozy mystery series featuring a sharp amateur sleuth, a charming coastal community, fair-play clues, and mysteries where following the money is often the fastest path to a killer.
Genre: Mystery
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