A Matter of Interest: A Pelican Point Senior Sleuth Mystery (Book 1). Pelican Senior Sleuth Mystery Series, #1

Margot Sterling has spent thirty years at the Treasury reading other people's money, and six months in a Sarasota retirement community trying not to read anything at all. She is seventy-one. She is fourteen months widowed. She is bored in the specific way a career forensic accountant gets bored when the only numbers left in her life are on a Sudoku grid. Then she attends her third funeral in as many months.
The grieving daughter mentions, in passing, that her father was "finally going to get the will sorted out this week." And Margot Sterling's professional instinct - the one she thought retirement had shut off - starts tapping at the back of her head. Three residents dead in six months. All three had pending will changes that would have cut someone out. In all three cases, the change was never executed.
In all three cases, the family member who was about to lose everything inherited in full. And in all three cases, the same soft-spoken estate attorney had his name on the paperwork. Margot has no badge, no authority, and no ally except a skeptical retired detective down the path and a music professor across the hall. What she has is a yellow legal pad, a habit of noticing what no one thinks she is smart enough to notice, and a question she cannot put down.
By the time she understands what she is looking at, a fourth resident is dead - and whoever has been running this operation has started watching her back. A MATTER OF INTEREST is the first book in the Pelican Point Mysteries, a senior sleuth cozy mystery series set in a luxury Florida retirement community. Perfect for readers who loved THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB, KILLERS OF A CERTAIN AGE, and the smart, warm tradition of Louise Penny.
A financial crime cozy with real stakes, a forensic accountant amateur sleuth who knows exactly what she is doing, and the start of a series designed to keep you at Pelican Point for a long time to come.