“The Offside Coroner kept me guessing right up to the end—the perfect balance of tension and rich detail that makes it impossible to put down. I simply loved it!”
—L.J. Regan, author of Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
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A coach, a protégé—and a scandal that turns deadly.
A fancy dinner date turns into Coroner Fenway Stevenson's worst nightmare. Sucked into investigating a wife accused of adultery, Fenway finds herself caught in the crossfire when the head coach for a professional soccer team ends up with his skull bashed in. As a sex scandal engulfs the team, Fenway tries to protect the prime suspect. Can Fenway unmask the killer before the body count rises?
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The Offside Coroner is the eighth novel in the acclaimed hard boiled Fenway Stevenson Mystery series.
KEYWORDS: California beach town murder, biracial female coroner investigator, soccer scandal, women's football mystery, NWSL scandal, medical examiner thriller, former nurse solves murders, estranged father, hard boiled mystery, strong Black woman sleuth, interracial romance mystery, BWWM detective romance, California beach black detective mystery whodunit crime fiction, Santa Barbara mystery, similar author to Leslie Wolfe, LJ Ross, Willow Rose, Blake Banner, Tom Fowler, Jeff Carson, TJ Jones
Paul Austin Ardoin is the USA TODAY bestselling author of The Fenway Stevenson Mysteries and The Woodhead & Becker Mysteries. Ardoin has published fiction and = essays in the anthologies Turning the Tide, The Paths We Tread, 12 Shots, Bottomfish and Sweet Fancy Moses, and articles about computer security in Channel Futures, California Computer News and European Communications. A graduate of University of California at Santa Barbara with a B.A. in creative writing, Paul lives with his wife and a menagerie of animals.