A Call for Kelp

March 15, 2020
An effort to help endangered honeybees ends in murder. Movie star Mitzi Calgon has volunteered to provide the voice-over for a documentary on bees as a favor to the Swan sisters, relatives of a long-departed friend. The sisters, Everly Swan's great-aunts, are bee experts with a reputation as healers, but Everly's best known for solving murders. When Mitzi is apparently stung to death at a luncheon with hordes of fans who've traveled far to see her, Everly is drawn to investigate even after the man she loves, Detective Grady Hays, warns her to leave the case to him. Grady is a widower who gave up a hotshot law enforcement job to move to the Outer Banks. Life there is better for his son, but Grady can't escape meddling by his wealthy mother-in-law, a former senator whose husband is currently on a secret government mission. Despite her duties at the iced tea shop she owns, Everly still manages to find time for sleuthing. Narrowing her list of suspects from the enormous group of fanatic fans, she focuses on the husband Mitzi was divorcing; his daughter, who worked for Mitzi; and the producer of the documentary. But she can't exclude stalkers or crazy fans, especially when she starts getting warnings to butt out. A swarm of bee-centric suspects, a bit of sweet romance, and a surprise sting add up to a honey of a tale.

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