Board Stiff

Written by Elaine Viets

Narrated by Sarah Pesek

: Husband and wife PI team Helen and Phil are hired to investigate a customer’s death at Sunny Jim’s Stand-Up Paddleboard on South Florida’s Riggs Beach. Life for Sunny Jim has been one catastrophe after another: cutthroat competitors are poaching his territory, a restaurant owner wants to turn his beach spot into a parking lot, the city wants to revoke his license, and now the husband of the dead paddleboarder has filed a wrongful death suit. Helen and Phil discover dark undercurrents of corruption behind the facades of cute beachfront businesses, as well domestic secrets. Helen and Phil have to solve this crime soon, before they’re all up a creek without a paddle.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Everand Productions
• Release date: Apr 23, 2024
• ISBN: 9781094465982

Elaine Viets

Elaine Viets has written 33 mysteries in four series: the bestselling Dead-End Job series with South Florida PI Helen Hawthorne, the cozy Josie Marcus Mystery Shopper mysteries, and the dark Francesca Vierling mysteries. With the Angela Richman Death Investigator series, Elaine returns to her hardboiled roots and uses her experience as a stroke survivor and her studies at the Medicolegal Death Investigators Training Course. Elaine was a director at large for the Mystery Writers of America. She's a frequent contributor to Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and anthologies edited by Charlaine Harris and Lawrence Block. Elaine won the Anthony, Agatha and Lefty Awards.