“An exciting, clean, and cozy mystery set in a lovely beach town with all the zany characters to make it memorable. If you love unexpected twists and turns and an occasional zig and zag in your cozies…you’ll love this book! Plus, Beau, the Golden Retriever, has captured my heart forever!”
~Independent Reviewer
Death at Pelican Isle Estates: A Pelican Shores Cozy Mystery
by Bessie Barr
Cozy Mystery
1st in Series
Setting – Texas
Independently Published (January 26, 2025)
Print length : 136 pages
Kindle ASIN : B0DV562N7M
Finn Dockrey is thrust into her new beach life at Pelican Isle Estates as the “Welcome Party” honoree. It’s three cheers to new friends, awesome food, and… a lifeless body at the bottom of the stairs!
Finn, Birdie and the party guests plummet into a perplexing murder scene.
When the alleged victim appears at the top of the stairs, pandemonium ensues. Whose body is lying in the pool of blood at the bottom of the stairs?
Enter handsome detective, Pace Stringfellow, who makes his expectations very clear. Finn will keep her nose out of the case.
But the story doesn’t add up, and Finn is helpless in steering clear of the investigation.
Too many people have appeared in the gated Pelican Isle Estates, and too many motives surface.
Shady New York mobsters. An “always present” voluptuous (and gold-digging) model looking for her next husband. Long-hidden family secrets and rumors of corruption and blackmail.
Finn knows there’s more to the story.
The killer is out for vengeance.
Will Finn and her crew help crack the case before the next body surfaces?
BONUS: RECIPE and BEACH MAP included!!
Book 2 in this Series
Death at the Killer Kite Festival: A Pelican Shores Cozy Mystery
Cozy Mystery
2nd in Series
Setting – Texas
Independently Published (February 24, 2025)
Print length : 189 pages
Kindle ASIN : B0DYDHJPHZ
Pelican Shores Beach is bustling with onlookers at the Annual Kite Flight Festival. But, with the entire crowd looking up at the spectacular display of brightly colored kites in the sky, no one even notices the chaos on the ground. An entrant into the festival quietly succumbs to the mighty pull of gravity and falls to the ground…DEAD!
Fingers point everywhere in a quest for the motive and the murderer. And without fail, Finn, Birdie, Beau and Queen Bean are smack dab in the middle of the mess.
As accusations fly in the murder case, a more subtle mystery surfaces. An alleged “flamingo sighting” causes another upheaval in this quiet little beach town.
Everyone knows flamingos don’t frequent Texas. But Calvin Wright knows what he saw that day at Otto’s Salt Marsh and Bird Refuge. And for some reason, what he saw doesn’t sit well with some of the townspeople.
Rumors are flying in Pelican Shores as the investigations heats up, and Finn is right in the middle.
It doesn’t take long for handsome detective, Pace, to insist that Finn step back. Impossible. She and her crew are knee-deep in the marsh of clues…of both the murder case and the flamingo sighting.
Birds and killers are on the loose. Finn races to connect the dots before the next victim falls.
RECIPE AND MAPS INCLUDED!
Book 3 in this Series
Death, Turmoil and Turtles: A Pelican Shores Cozy Mystery
Cozy Mystery
3rd in Series
Setting – Texas
Independently Published (March 30, 2025)
Print length : 192 pages
Kindle ASIN : B0F27C2DVS
Pelican Shores is thrilled to be this year’s host for the Seaward Turtle And Rescue charity. It’s STAR Convention time!
There are sea turtles to rescue and funds to raise. Local potter, Finn Dockrey, and her best friend, Birdie, have sleeves rolled up. It’s free community pottery classes, homemade cherry hand pies, and cinnamon rolls. Smiles and sunshine all around — until a severed human arm is found in the beachside trash bin.
The tide turns in the town as the cheer turns to dread.
And now, the quaint beach town is teeming with more than just turtle lovers. It’s full of secrets –– and suspects.
Oil tycoons. Glittering philanthropists. Retired gangsters. They slip between silent auction tables and into the town’s web of underground bars and secret rooms.
All the while detective Pace Stringfellow maintains his focus. He knows that where there’s an arm, there’s also a body. And a killer.
He insists that Finn, Birdie and their fur friends, Beau and Queen Bean steer clear.
More body parts begin to surface. And Finn and Birdie find themselves pulled into the investigation.
The convention is in full swing and a killer still at large. Will the duo piece together the truth before someone else washes up, dead?
MAPS and RECIPE INCLUDED!
And the Prequel
Death by the Dunes: A Pelican Shores Cozy Mystery
Cozy Mystery
Prequel
Setting – Texas
Independently Published (December 18, 2024)
Print length : 43 pages
Kindle ASIN : B0DQYLVZMD
Nothing ruins a gorgeous coastal sunrise quicker than…a dead body.
It’s toes in the sand for Finn as she plants herself at Pelican Shores beach, awaiting her first Texas sunrise.
So much for her “reset” artistic vacation! The colorful sky simply illuminates Finn’s next headache…a dead man in the dunes.
Worse? She and her new friend, Birdie, are the prime suspects of Pace Stringfellow, the local, lone-wolf cop.
Rumors spread fast in the small, coastal town. A mysterious note in the dead man’s hand, rattlesnakes in the dunes, nosy neighbors. The quest for “who dunnit” leaves everyone on edge.
Accepting the help of Beau, the stray dog of the dunes, Finn and Birdie race to find the killer.
But killers wait for nothing. Can Finn and Birdie unmask the real perp before the next victim’s demise?
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