Death on the Pickleball Court

A body lies dead inside Nightingale Island’s brand-new pickleball facility. Apparent cause of death? A pickleball to the throat.Delores Periwinkle is a pickleball fanatic. She loves three things in this world: Her grandson, her son, and pickleball. And not necessarily in that order. She had been planning a grand opening ceremony for the pickleball courts for months, and the celebration was mere days away when she discovered the body of her pickleball partner lying motionless on the baseline of court twelve.Nothing like this had ever happened before on idyllic Nightingale Island. Typically, the worst thing that might happen is a tourist getting a little rowdy after having one too many drinks. Delores knows that the town sheriff, her ex-husband Jeppy Periwinkle, is ill-equipped to solve an actual crime, so she sets out to find the killer herself.Her sleuthing leads her to discover a secretive organization known as The Tennis Society, whose membership includes several of the most influential figures on Nightingale Island. The Tennis Society wants to stop the spread of pickleball and ensure that tennis remains the number one racquet sport on the island. But would they actually resort to murder to achieve their goals? Or was her pickleball partner murdered for much more personal reasons?