Dinked: Serenity Acres: Where Secrets Barely Stay Hidden
by Crystal Quast
About Dinked: Serenity Acres
Dinked: Serenity Acres: Where Secrets Barely Stay Hidden
Mystery
1st in Series
Setting – Serenity Acres in the town of Southpoint
Publisher : Crystal Quast (April 15, 2025)
Paperback : 254 pages
ISBN-10 : 1069383813
ISBN-13 : 978-1069383815
Digital ASIN : B0DZFCMVHL
If you love cozy mysteries, welcome to Serenity Acres in the town of Southpoint, where everyone is a hot mess with a secret to hide.
Dinked: Secrets of Serenity Acres, dives deep into the deadly tensions between pickleball and tennis players in the bucolic, ball-buster neighborhood. When Margot Fields tries to push through a plan to expand the local courts, secrets start to come to the surface and residents start to unravel. It’s a death match to the end, but who will come out unscathed in this fun, feisty thriller?
GUEST POST
Not only is Dinked: Serenity Acres my first novel, it is my first attempt at creative writing after nearly 20 years working as a professional writer.
Serenity Acres is set in the bucolic, ball-buster town of Southpoint. Everyone in the posh gated community is a hot mess with a secret to hide. And with Courts Director Margot Fields’ plans to expand the local courts, secrets buried for years threaten to rise to the surface. Pickleball and tennis players are at each other’s throats—and someone might get theirs slit.
That’s got everyone taking wild swings—and guesses—about who’s about to string up Margot.
Dinked: Serenity Acres is Volume 1 in a planned series of five.
Serenity Acres is like an onion. So many layers, there was just no way to reveal all of the secrets in just one novel. That’s why I’ll be building on the funny and flawed residents of this enclave for the next couple of years.
My day job? I’m a Corporate Communications writer for companies listed on stock exchanges all over the world. With over 20 years of experience, I have worked with many types of companies—from nuts-and-bolts manufacturers to high-tech start-ups and everything in between—in Europe, South America, Asia, and Africa. I even walked past Buckingham Palace on the way to work to sit in the House of Commons on behalf of a cannabis company. Now that’s a Throwback Thursday!
After running my own small agency for nearly a decade, I still wanted to try my hand at the holy grail of most writers: the novel.
I grew up enjoying cozy mysteries like Murder, She Wrote and Columbo with my parents. I enjoyed the light-hearted criminality. Sure, someone got killed in each episode, but not one was seriously sinister. There were no cages in basements or boiling bodies in vats of acid. Just a single shot at mid-range or a sharp hit with a poker, and the victim had been victimized.
And the resolutions left my mom and me laughing out loud. How easily each perpetrator copped to their crime—no interrogations necessary. My husband is similarly inclined, and we gravitate towards light-hearted comedies and sitcoms and avoid anything too graphic. I was the only person who didn’t love Pulp Fiction at the time! (I know, I know… it’s a classic…)
I also grew up in the age of moms ironing to soap operas after school, and as an adult, I still love dramedic-style, serialized shows.
So when I went to create Serenity Acres—the series—I wanted to create something centered on a mystery, but with lasting characters that could move from one crisis to the next, and do it with flair! A little bit of crime, a little bit of fashion, a lot of fun!
For music lovers, there are tons of easter eggs hidden throughout the book—lyrics woven into the prose to hint at characters or even outcomes. How many can you find?
Birds are everywhere, too, in Dinked: Serenity Acres. Giving these creatures of the sky, who can surveil us any time, the power to watch, gossip, and judge the happenings in Serenity Acres adds another dimension. And what’s with all of the crows? With memories like elephants and the ability to hold a grudge longer than an election cycle, they just come back to create more trouble in Volume 2.
I hope you enjoy reading Dinked: Serenity Acres as much as I did writing it.
About Crystal Quast
With over twenty years of spinning stories in corporate communications, Dinked: Serenity Acres Where Secrets Barely Stay Hidden is Crystal Quast’s debut novel. When she’s not writing, C.A. loves playing pickleball and tennis, paddleboarding, hiking, and spending time with her family.
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