Swimmingly Dead
Description
The menu was murder. The chef? A Middle-aged mom with nothing left to lose...
For empty-nester and caterer-turned-sleuth Ella McBane, a high-end open house in Pacific Heights quickly turns deadly. When a close friend's shocking death is ruled an overdose, Ella knows better. The suspects are plenty: a horror novelist, a volatile supermodel, a wellness guru with a mega following and shady past, and a real estate developer who once got away with murder.
With her sharp-tongued best friend Noelle, her spiritually enlightened daughter Hailey, and her irritating but comic relief of an ex-husband Jay, Ella and company unravel a chilling web of buried secrets, suspicious deaths, and a body count that keeps quietly growing. Someone is covering their tracks. And someone knows Ella is getting close.
As if that weren't enough, her heart is being pulled in directions. A cautious new romance with by-the-book Detective Chris May offers something real and steady, while unexpected emails from Paris from "the one that got away" threaten to reopen a chapter she thought was closed for good.
Ella is in over her head. And the closer she gets to the truth, the more she wonders if she and the people she loves are next on the killer's menu. And as if trying to solve this murder is hard enough, figuring out her own heart might just be the case that breaks her.
"Ms. Scott has penned a wonderful multilayered story with true-to-life characters and takes her readers on a wild ride." - Amazon Review