While investigating the supposedly accidental drowning of her friend Adelia's father, Merry Folger, a cop on Nantucket Island, must search for an elusive killer. By the author of Death in the Off-Season.
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Nantucket police detective Merry Folger sails surely through choppy seas of murder, insurance fraud and infidelity in her second outing (after Death in the Off-Season). Merry's childhood pal Del Duarte, unmarried and with a two-year-old daughter, returns home for the funeral of her fisherman father, whose death at sea, she believes, was not the simple accident it seemed. Although Merry welcomes the chance to renew their friendship, everyone else in town wonders who fathered the child that caused Del to flee in the first place, and few are happy that she has decided to stay in Nantucket to make a go of fishing herself. First the Town Pier goes up in flames, and then Del is found dead, stabbed with her own harpoon. Merry's father, the police chief, refuses to give her the case; but she can't just ignore her friend's death. Her investigation leads her into Del's past, to a leading developer on the island and to Del's father's brooding, violent first mate. Mathews skillfully incorporates close-knit relationships, small-town gossip and a salty Nantucket flavor as she steers this intricate tale to a satisfying conclusion.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Francine Mathews, who also writes as Stephanie Barron, is the author of twenty novels of mystery, history, and suspense. A graduate of Princeton and Stanford, she spent four years as an intelligence analyst at the CIA, and presently lives and works in Colorado.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Pretentious,
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This review is from: Death in Rough Water: A Merry Folger Mystery (Hardcover)
This book is so pretentious I found it hard to believe anyone would publish it. I hated it too. The author spends so much time trying to be witty and urbane that the story suffers, and the readers also.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great book!,
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This review is from: Death in Rough Water: A Merry Folger Mystery (Hardcover)
This was the first book I bought by Francine and I've read all of the others since. Very good author and an excellent place setting too. Highly recommend this one.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Francine Mathews creates compelling characters and stories .,
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This review is from: Death in Rough Water: A Merry Folger Mystery (Hardcover)
Francine Mathews creates compelling characters and stories set in the less glam side of New England's rarefied vacation island. The romance that twines through Death in Rough Water heightens the suspense.
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