The Gator Did It

By: Kay Dew Shostak

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Football is a whole other thing in the South, Midwestern transplant Jewel Mantelle discovers, and on Sophia Island, they love the Gators. Jewel would be fine with that if her friends only meant the University of Florida football team, but they also seem to love the critters skulking around in the ditches and creeks running through their tiny beach town. At her first ever football party she finds herself front and center for the spectacle of the eccentric Bell Jackson calling the gators behind his huge mansion—and it gives her the creeps.
But finding out those very same gators didn’t hesitate to take a bite of Mr. Jackson when he fell off his balcony and landed in their domain is even creepier.
Did he fall? Was he pushed? Everyone’s connected in a small town, and Jewel’s lunch bunch friends are all more on edge than usual, afraid their loved ones will be implicated in Bell’s death.
Admittedly, it’s hard to concentrate on solving that mystery with the rash of burglaries hitting the island. When Jewel’s own house is targeted, she finds herself confiding in someone with a little more distance from the action—her estranged husband, Craig.
In this invitingly cozy beachfront mystery, fifth in the series, football might be the safest game on Sophia Island.

Such a small island, for all this.

I lumped my reviews up and put them in one story. See if you can find it??