As director of the charitable and prestigious Ballantyne
Foundation of Sea Pine Island, South Carolina, Elliott
(Elli) Lisbon is also expected to perform discreet
inquiries for the foundation's donors and close friends.
This works out well with her other pursuit as an official
PI-in-training. She just wishes it didn't also involve
murder.
The Christmas season is in full swing, and the opening
night performance of The Nutcracker hits a snag when
the Sugar Plum Fairy, Lexie Allen, is found dead in her
dressing room. It appears she died of accidental poisoning
from eating her own baked cupcakes that contained lethal
berries. But Lexie was an excellent cook and Elli finds it
hard to believe Lexie would not know the difference between
berries. Could she have committed suicide, as some infer,
or was it murder?
Not willing to agree with the conclusion of the police,
especially that of ex-lover/cop Nick Ransom, Elli starts
her own investigation into Lexie's death. She again must
deal with an ensemble of quirky suspects as she digs into
Lexie's background and those of her friends and family.
Just when Elli thinks she has all the answers, more
questions come up, and she's following a new trail of
clues.
As the third book in Kendel Lynn's Elliott Lisbon
mystery series, SWAN DIVE reunites us with Elli, a
delightful amateur sleuth with an aversion to germs, who's
always willing to right a wrong. Using her uncanny
cleverness and deep-seated loyalty, she deftly handles
whatever comes her way -- eventually. Now, if she could just
find the right man to love...maybe in the next installment in
this perfectly delightful cozy mystery series.
EXIT STAGE LEFT…
It’s Opening Night at the Ballantyne Foundation’s production
of The Nutcracker, but it’s curtains for the Sugar Plum
Fairy. When her body is found backstage, fatally poisoned by
a cupcake she baked herself, rumors turn to suicide. But
Elli Lisbon, director of the Ballantyne and coordinator of
the ballet, smells something rotten amidst the sugar and spice.
As Elli applies her PI-in-training skills on the troupe of
suspects, she discovers an eccentric herbalist, a
temperamental chef, a stalking choreographer, and a bevy of
backstage secrets. Between her off-the-record investigation,
duty as director of the Ballantyne and highly-charged love
life, she finds herself caught in a dance to keep one
pirouette ahead of a half-baked killer.
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