Crime on the Coast (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781963832433)

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.