Crescent Beach is the first book in the Senior Sleuths series.

Abbey is a senior who lives in a small beach community. Most mornings, her friends from nursing school meet for coffee and talk before they go for a walk. On the beach path one evening, Abbey finds a body. After the police are involved, she wants nothing more to do with it. Until that is, one of her friends is considered a person of interest. Now she must help clear her friend. New evidence keeps turning up to implicate her friend, as well as organized crime being involved. Abbey finds she has feelings for the homicide detective who is in charge of this case. Will Abbey be able to put feelings aside to find out the truth, or will she find herself deceived by both friend and cop?