The first book in the Sanibel Island Mystery series, A SHELL OF A PROBLEM introduces readers to investigative reporter Guin Jones, who has left cold, gray New England and a failed marriage for warm, sunny Sanibel Island, Florida, along with her two faithful feline companions, Flora and Fauna. But all is not sunshine and seashells on Sanibel. And soon Guin is hot on the trail of a priceless missing mollusk and a murderer. Along the way she finds buckets of shells and suspects and a little romance too.