The name’s Verona Montero, and I’m a private dick. Not a private investigator, not a detective—a private dick. I’m adamant about that point for two reasons: one, it lets me drop the word “dick” into conversation like confetti, and two, it sounds like I’m living in a movie from the ’40s. Big band jazz, smoking, alcohol—those were the good old days.
These days aren’t quite so glamorous, but the gig still has perks. Sleeping in until 11 a.m. on a Tuesday is one of them. Being paid to be a devious, sneaking, eavesdropping human is another. People tend to get annoyed when you do that kind of thing in your personal life. Of course, like any job, it has its quirky annoyances, and my current client is a prime example.
She’s a gold-digger with more boobs than brains, clawing for her share of the billions—yes, billions—her husband’s eager to divorce her out of. She should’ve called a lawyer, but see previous note on brains. But at the end of the day, I have to thank her, because this means I get to choose the lawyer, and boy, do I know just the one.
Quentin Ellsworth, the sexiest man to grace this earth since the gods decided this planet has gone to hell in a handbasket and retreated to divine orgies with bottomless elixir. One look at him and bam—crotch headache. You know the feeling: white-hot lust for the best piece of ass you’ve ever seen, but he’s strictly off-limits. Cue the throbbing frustration.
I’m looking forward to digging into this case, looking more forward to the chance to finally get into Quentin’s pants, but you know how these stories go, right? Nothing is going to go like I want it to—twists, trouble, and total chaos are ahead.
So buckle up, baby. We’re talking foul-mouthed feminism, undercover ops in a secret sex club, a sun-soaked detour to Greece, and banter sharp enough to draw blood. It’s not pure noir, but the attitude’s vintage and the ride’s anything but tame.
Ready to ride shotgun with a private dick who takes no prisoners? Let’s hit the gas.
ALIBI BY ACCIDENT
Series Name: A Verona Montero Mystery, Book 1
Genre: Humorous Mystery
Release: March 2026
Format: Print, Digital, Audio
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F*ck It isn’t just the name of her favorite smoothie―it’s also Verona Montero’s approach to murder investigations.
Verona Montero loves calling herself a private dick because it makes her sound like she’s in a 1940s detective movie. And she gets to say “dick” a lot. So when Miami―a walking Barbie with an emoji addiction―needs proof her billionaire husband Javier is cheating, Verona’s all over it. Bonus: it means working with divorce lawyer Quentin, whose cologne gives her “crotch headaches.”
Then bam―Javier turns up dead in Greece, and Miami is staring down a murder charge. With her client’s billions at stake and a hefty retainer padding her account, Verona’s jetting off to Mykonos faster than you can say “Dark and Stormy.”
Between conning hotel staff and recruiting a drag queen to go undercover in a secret sex club, evidence suggests that the wrong person might be taking the fall. Now Verona’s facing her toughest moral dilemma yet: pursue justice for a dead predator, or let a killer with excellent taste in victims walk free.
Wickedly funny and twisty, this whodunit delivers the goods for fans of Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum series and Elle Cosimano’s Finlay Donovan series.
Meet the author
Kayleigh Suggett’s love of classic mysteries, British satire, and clever humour inspired Alibi by Accident, the first in her series of mysteries featuring private dick Verona Montero. She wishes that more female authors were writing in the irreverent style she enjoys, so she decided to become one herself.
With a background in customer service and business administration, she draws on her experience of the oddities of human behaviour to craft distinctly zany characters, fast-paced banter, and hilarious situations.
When she’s not coming up with a perfectly snide simile to add to her books she’s a wedding singer, choir nerd, mountain-gazer, and NYT crossword frustrated solver. She lives in Calgary, AB with her husband and son.
Reach out to Kayleigh at www.kayleighsuggett.com.