Peril at Pelican Pointe

DESCRIPTION:

In the sleepy town of Plum Beach, where gossip travels faster than the seasonal winds, the grisly murder of a local magician sends shockwaves through the community and brings a goth teenager, Azure, out into the open. The teen is more than quirky. She believes in reincarnation in the absolute.
Rookie detective Sam Spaid is determined to crack the case, but he's in over his head. Enter Philis Marlow, a sharp-witted, vacationing, sexagenarian, and long-time author with a lifetime of observing human behavior and a knack for seeing what others miss.
As Sam and Philis dig deeper, they uncover a web of secrets involving a band of traveling Romas, and Azure’s troubled past.
Meanwhile, the media circus begins and one of Philis’ aging diner friends becomes an unexpected source of information as she races against time to unravel a decades old mystery.
In Plum Beach, the town where everyone knows your name but no one knows your secrets, can this unconventional duo of young ambition and elderly wisdom unmask the culprit hiding in plain sight?
All Philis has to do is pilfer through the clues and eliminate everything to do with urban legends like reincarnation, werewolves and vampires.
Or does she?
In this slightly off-kilter whodunit, age is just a number and everyone’s a suspect.

FROM THE AUTHOR:

Multi-published, multi-genre author Cyn Taylor writes Southern Contemporary Romantic Suspense based in the Smoky Mountains and Appalachian area. Her books include strong characters that must come to grips with a twist of fate and faith that takes their lives in an entirely different direction than they had charted out for their future.

Smoky Mountain Mist is Taylor's first series. Blue Mountain Sky, Red Morning Glory and Dawn's Gray Light are the three books completing that series. In 2019, Taylor published A Cove Creek Christmas, the first novella in the Smoky Mountain Christmas Magic series as well as Truffles & Kisses, book one in the Smoky Mountain Magic series. All books are works of fiction, although the reader may recognize many of the locations named in the books. Taylor’s romantic fiction books are charming, clean reads written with humor and happy conclusions.

Taylor released her first children’s book, Theodore the Dancing Christmas Horse, in 2019 written under the pen name of LeNai LaRue. The author currently has a Young Adult Fantasy trilogy in the works along with a Familial Comedy and a mystery series. Pet and people journals are also available from this author.

Taylor began her career as a published author in 2016 when she signed a contract with a small publishing company for her Smoky Mountain Mist series. In 2018, after being granted the rights back to her first books, Taylor went the route of Indie publishing by redesigning her covers and re-releasing those first three books.

That same year, Taylor started her own publishing company, Thunder Ridge Publishing (TRP), with the hope of assisting unpublished authors in getting their books to press. TRP designed, edited and published the works of two outside authors between January and August 2019.

A freelance photojournalist, Taylor writes faith, community and feature articles for local newspapers. She says her experiences in writing about life as it is lived by salt of the earth local folks is inspiring, and has helped create the background, as well as some of the unique individuals, featured in her books.

Taylor lives in Knoxville Tennessee in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains. She and husband Brent have carved out their dream home on his family farm at the peak of Copper Ridge, along with a feral cat and other woodland creatures who come round to visit. The couple has two married adult children and nine grandchildren.

The author says she also gets some of the best inspiration and ideas for storylines and characters when she accompanies Brent, an accomplished angler, on fly-fishing excursions to the Smokies and local tailwaters. He fishes, she writes, life is good.

PRODUCT DETAILS:

Publisher: Independently published

Language: English

Paperback: Yes

Dimensions: 5.5 X 8.5

Publication Date: September 24, 2024