Customer Reviews

Death in Rough Water: A Merry Folger Mystery

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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.

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.

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.

I found the premise of this book to be totally unbelievable. Maybe I am too "cosmopolitan," but I find it impossible to believe that in the mid-1990s, the setting for this book, a father would kick out of the house and stop speaking to a daughter who, apparently at least 30 years old, becomes pregnant and decides to have the child. In addition, we are expected to believe the whole town condemns her and her "loose morals" and character deficits. We're also expected to believe this same man would leave his most treasured possessions to a man who has little, if any, respect and affection for him, and that he would suggest this same man to be his "illegitimate" granddaughter's legal guardian! What a bunch of hogwash.