Permanent Sunset

Against her better judgment Sabrina and her partner Henry take on the management of lavish Villa Nirvana on St John. In Permanent Sunset by C. Michele Dorsey, Sabrina is sure the villa is going to bring unwanted attention to them. After the last brush with "fame", Sabrina wants to lay low and just manage their 10 Villas.

The Keating family gathers for the wedding of son Sean, but the bride, on the eve of the wedding, has a meltdown and refuses to sign a prenuptial agreement. She storms off and is missing on the day of the wedding. Sabrina begins to look for Elena and wander down to the beach to search. The plans for a glamorous wedding are ruined when the bride turns up missing, then dead, drowned at the water's edge.

Of course the murder brings Sabrina to the attention of the police but this time it is not her friend Detective Janquar, but the allegedly corrupt and ambitious Detective Vernon Hodge. He tries to tie the previous murder in the 10 Villas to this one and accuses Sabrina and Henry of not providing enough security for their guests. He even threatens to revoke their real estate license, thereby terminating their ability to manage the Villas.

The wealthy family members are all suspects, but Sabrina’s own past keeps cropping up. With the assistance of lawyer (not licensed the Virgin Islands) Neil Perry, it is soon discovered Elena was not who she claimed to be. With Jack Keating's wife and ex-wife present, two angry sons and lots of competition for the business, the Keating family has plenty of suspect to go around. An excellent adventure in paradise

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No Virgin Island

Sabrina Salter thought she had put her notoriety behind her when she moved to St. John, Virgin Islands. In No Virgin Island by C. Michele Dorsey, Sabrina discovers a murdered man in one of the villas she manages and suddenly her past come rushing back.

Several years prior Sabrina was a successful meteorologist at a Boston TV station, married to handsome sports anchor. She discovered he was cheating on like he did with his first wife and she decided to leave him. She fled to their summer home on Nantucket until she could figure out what to do. Sometime during the night, she heard what she thought was a prowler and shot and killed him. Turned out it was Ben.

Pursued relentlessly by a trash TV reporter who uses the murder to raise her ratings, accuses Sabrina of getting away with murder. When she was tried and found innocent, she fled to St. John hoping her notoriety would subside.

Now here she was again in the middle of a murder investigation

and tormented by Faith Chase, the reporter. Sabrina knows she needs to solve the case or she will have to leave St. John as well.

The coincidences seem to stack up when long-time renters decided to cancel their regular booking at Villa Mascarpone. Then Carter Johnson immediately calls to book the entire Villa for himself. Gets himself murdered on the day he is checking out. The next couple, Deidre and Sam Leonard, who have rented the Villa arrive in the midst of the investigation and insist they want to stay in Villa Mascarpone despite additional perks for another Villa.

Digging deeper Sabrina finds more than a murderer and puts her life and others in jeopardy.  An excellent mystery filled with unexpected plot lines.

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