Portrait of a Suspect: A Venice Island Mystery

A cozy mystery set in charming Venice, Florida, where a newly divorced 60-year-old artist finally begins creating a life of her own after spending decades helping everyone else build theirs — until a murder threatens the future she’s only just begun to imagine.

Paige Davenport always believed there would be time for her later. Time to paint. Time to make room for the dreams she’d set aside while building everyone else’s future. Then later arrived, looking nothing like she’d imagined. It arrived with divorce papers, an empty bank account, and a murder. So much for easing into her next chapter.

When a teaching position opens at the newly established Sinclair Art Institute, Paige dares to believe she may finally have found a place to begin again. But when the school’s director is found murdered, suspicion turns in her direction, threatening the fragile future she’s only just begun to imagine.

Determined to clear her name, Paige follows a trail of old rivalries, hidden ambitions, and carefully guarded secrets beneath the art school’s welcoming façade. Every answer draws Paige one step closer to the truth — and one step closer to the woman she was always meant to be.