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The Third-Shot Drop
(2026)(The third book in the Kitchen Line Mysteries series)
A novel by Wynn Valentine
The lighthouse restoration was supposed to preserve Palmetto Island’s history.
Instead, it may have buried a murder.
Retired forensic accountant Pepper Ramirez-Flynn has learned that money rarely disappears. It simply changes costumes.
When the Palmetto Island Historical Society celebrates a lighthouse keeper’s cottage restoration that ran eight months late and eleven percent under budget, Pepper reaches for her pencil. Then longtime archivist Opal Wicks is found dead at the bottom of the lighthouse stairs—and the Society insists it was a tragic accident.
Pepper isn’t convinced.
The numbers point toward false construction delays, missing archive records, and valuable artifacts slipping quietly into private hands. But everyone connected to the restoration is hiding something: a cash-strapped contractor, a furious former president, a treasure hunter with a family grievance, and a retired auctioneer whose brand-new boat is named Fair Warning.
With Birdie collecting secrets, Theo keeping Pepper grounded, and Ledger watching every suspect with a greyhound’s judgment, Pepper must uncover what Opal found before Palmetto Island turns a carefully edited legend into permanent history.
Because every object has a provenance.
And so does a death.
Perfect for readers who love clever amateur sleuths, fair-play clues, coastal small-town mysteries, senior sleuths, and cozy mysteries where following the money leads to murder.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Instead, it may have buried a murder.
Retired forensic accountant Pepper Ramirez-Flynn has learned that money rarely disappears. It simply changes costumes.
When the Palmetto Island Historical Society celebrates a lighthouse keeper’s cottage restoration that ran eight months late and eleven percent under budget, Pepper reaches for her pencil. Then longtime archivist Opal Wicks is found dead at the bottom of the lighthouse stairs—and the Society insists it was a tragic accident.
Pepper isn’t convinced.
The numbers point toward false construction delays, missing archive records, and valuable artifacts slipping quietly into private hands. But everyone connected to the restoration is hiding something: a cash-strapped contractor, a furious former president, a treasure hunter with a family grievance, and a retired auctioneer whose brand-new boat is named Fair Warning.
With Birdie collecting secrets, Theo keeping Pepper grounded, and Ledger watching every suspect with a greyhound’s judgment, Pepper must uncover what Opal found before Palmetto Island turns a carefully edited legend into permanent history.
Because every object has a provenance.
And so does a death.
Perfect for readers who love clever amateur sleuths, fair-play clues, coastal small-town mysteries, senior sleuths, and cozy mysteries where following the money leads to murder.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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