num_pages: 258
description: As director of the Ballantyne Foundation on Sea Pine Island SC Elliott Lisbon scratches her detective itch by performing discreet inquiries for Foundation donors. Usually nothing more serious than retrieving a pilfered Pomeranian. Until Jane Hatting Ballantyne board chair is accused of murder. The Ballantynes reputation tanks Janes headed to a jail cell and Elliotts sexy ex is the new lieutenant in town. Armed with moxie and her Mini Coop Elliott uncovers a trail of blackmail schemes gambling debts illicit affairs and investment scams. But the deeper she digs to clear Janes name the guiltier Jane looks. The closer she gets to the truth the more treacherous her investigation becomes: a brutal attack on her own suspect and the murder of a witness. With victims piling up faster than shells at a clambake Elliott realizes shes next on the killers list.
language: English
title: Board Stiff
publisher: Henery Press