Balance Due: A Valencia Palms Mystery

By Yoav Balgi

Rose Meyerson spent forty years catching liars with arithmetic. She planned to spend retirement alphabetizing the spice rack.

Then the treasurer of Valencia Palms - the one man who asked her to look at the books - turns up dead in the pool pump room, and everyone accepts "heart attack" except Rose. The newsletter's numbers don't add up. His pill organizer was full. And numbers don't lie; people do the lying.

With a grumpy ex-homicide detective, a 79-year-old former Rockette who runs the community's gossip economy, and a retired pharmacist who knows what doesn't belong in a heart patient's Thursday slot, Rose follows the money - into a scheme that's been quietly bleeding her neighbors for years, run by someone who understands the darkest advantage in America: no one looks at old people.

Which is exactly why four of them make the perfect detectives. A warm, witty, clean mystery - Book 1 of the Valencia Palms Mysteries. Also available in paperback and large print.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H9V8FY3Y
• ISBN13: 9798188050535
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"