Death by Deep End: A Hilarious Feel-Good Cozy Mystery

About Death by Deep End: A Hilarious Feel-Good Cozy Mystery

An abandoned villa. A bone-dry infinity pool. And a drowned man miles from the ocean.

On San Malvino, September means the wealthy mainlanders have finally packed up their bags and abandoned their luxury vacation homes for the season. For the locals, it’s a blissful, quiet stretch of locking gates and winterizing estates. But the peaceful off-season vibe is completely ruined when a caretaker finds a dead body lying at the bottom of an empty infinity pool.

To make matters worse, Dr. Crane confirms the victim has drowned. Which is quite a trick in a pool that hasn't held water in weeks in a villa locked down tight under a high-tech smart security system that never registered a single breach.

With the neighborhood completely deserted, Mendoza tapes off the vacant estate to hunt for a killer in a ghost town. Now, it's up to the island's favorite crew to solve the impossible. While Lucien attempts to hack a stubborn smart-home system and Gary confidently blames supernatural forces, Reg, Alex, and Rafa must retrace the dead man’s final steps to figure out who used the seasonal exodus to pull off the perfect murder.

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