Crime on the Coast - (Bea Rivers Mystery) by Marty Eberhardt (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Bea Rivers is invited to a small botanical garden conference at a seaside garden in exclusive La Jolla, California. The host director falls from 300-foot cliffs to the beach below, and the police declare the death to be either a suicide or a murder. The victim, Bea's college friend, Paige Pearson, had something urgent to tell Bea right before her death. Bea is determined to solve the mystery. In her own interviews and not-so-legal evidence gathering, Bea discovers that many of the people she'd just been dining with had good reasons to wish Paige gone. As her investigations accelerate, so does her realization that she is dealing with some very powerful and malevolent forces.

About the Author

Marty Eberhardt is a retired botanical garden executive director who now delights in using the right side of her brain to write fiction. She has written two books in the Bea Rivers botanical garden mystery series; DEATH IN A DESERT GARDEN, out in 2021, winner of four awards including the Arizona-New Mexico book award for cozy mystery, and BONES IN THE BACK FORTY, 2023, an Albuquerque Journal " Book of the Week" and winner of two Firebird Awards. Marty and her husband divide their time between Tucson and Silver City, New Mexico, enjoying the wild areas and wild characters of both.