Peril at Pelican Pointe: A Philis Marlow Whodunit Puzzler

In the sleepy town of Plum Beach, where gossip travels faster than the seasonal winds, the grisly murder of a local magician sends shockwaves through the community and brings a goth teenager, Azure, out into the open. The teen is more than quirky. She believes in reincarnation in the absolute.
Rookie detective Sam Spaid is determined to crack the case, but he’s in over his head. Enter Philis Marlow, a sharp-witted, vacationing, sexagenarian, and long-time author with a lifetime of observing human behavior and a knack for seeing what others miss.
As Sam and Philis dig deeper, they uncover a web of secrets involving a band of traveling Romas, and Azure’s troubled past.
Meanwhile, the media circus begins and one of Philis’ aging diner friends becomes an unexpected source of information as she races against time to unravel a decades old mystery.
In Plum Beach, the town where everyone knows your name but no one knows your secrets, can this unconventional duo of young ambition and elderly wisdom unmask the culprit hiding in plain sight?
All Philis has to do is pilfer through the clues and eliminate everything to do with urban legends like reincarnation, werewolves and vampires.
Or does she?
In this slightly off-kilter whodunit, age is just a number and everyone’s a suspect.