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When murder trends too close to home, social media influencer Coco Cline will have to swipe through a sea of trolls to tag a killer.   After cracking her first case, Cordelia "Coco" Cline's life is finally getting back to normal-or as normal as life can be when you have over three million followers online. With a thriving business, a devoted boyfriend, and her two besties living right up the street, Coco is set to have the most fun summer of her life until Larry and Rosalynn Dunmer move into the condo next door.   Coco and her friends do their best to avoid the confrontational duo, but when a party at a swanky new wine bar brings everyone together, things become less than neighborly faster than a celebrity-themed hashtag goes viral. Larry levels some super shady threats toward Coco and her BFF Jasper, which could have dire consequences for their multimedia empires. Just as Coco begins to wonder if she'll have to spend the rest of the summer looking over her shoulder, she gets a shocking request from police. As part of her PR gig with the Central Shores PD, they need her to come to the beach and keep the public at bay. A body has washed ashore. Thinking a poor swimmer drowned just before the Salute to Summer festival kicks off, Coco arrives to find Larry Dunmer, dead with a corkscrew sticking out of his neck. What's even more unbelievable is that Jasper quickly shoots to the top of Chief McInnis's suspect list. In full-on panic mode, Coco decides to use her tech-savvy sleuthing skills to clear her best friend's name before his rep is ruined. She soon discovers that Larry made quite a few enemies during his very short stay in town. But who hated him enough to kill him?   Return to the beaches of Central Shores as Coco Cline and her squad assemble to catch a killer before they get canceled...permanently.

Some throwbacks are best forgotten.   With crime in Central Shores, Delaware, finally trending downward, social media influencer Coco Cline considers archiving her amateur sleuthing exploits. But when a blast from her friend Charlotte's past dies under suspicious circumstances, all thoughts of Coco leaving her crime-solving days behind get deleted. The local police are looking at Charlotte, which means Coco needs to find them another suspect, or even better, the real killer. Teaming up with the Sleuth Squad to clear one of their own, Coco and her friends scour the victim's socials for clues. What was this guy doing in Central Shores? Who did he have ties with other than Charlotte? With the evidence mounting against Central Shores's favorite coffee shop owner, it's a race against time before Charlotte's rep is permanently canceled. Can Coco uncover another killer, or will Charlotte go from barista to behind bars?