The Bee Balm Murders — Cynthia Riggs

Midsummer on Martha's Vineyard means Victoria Trumbull's beehives are in full production. Traditions are important to the ninety-two-year-old poet and amateur sleuth, but she knows modern innovations like new fiber-optic cables are inevitable for the historic island. Victoria's likable new tenant is actually in charge of the cable project. But when his company's biggest potential investor is found dead in a ditch, Victoria starts her own digging.

After a wealthy island newcomer also invests in the cable project, Victoria begins to wonder if there may be more to the enterprise than meets the eye. The appearance of a few more financiers with duplicitous motives and another murder victim only confirm her suspicions. Soon Victoria is untangling a web of double dealing, mob money, illegal drugs and scorned love that leads her to the real motive for murder…and the shocking identity of the killer.