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In this delicious new mystery from Francine Mathews, no-nonsense Nantucket detective Merry Folger must face her toughest adversaries yet when wannabe Hollywood stars take over the island in the midst of quarantine.
Chief among Nantucket Island's cherished traditions is Winter Stroll, when evergreen trees line Main Street and tourists and islanders share the spirit of the season in shops and restaurants gilded with firelight. This year, however, is different-the pandemic still threatens the lives of everyone determined to spend a long weekend thirty miles out at sea, with the closest ICU a helicopter flight away.
Nantucket Police Chief Meredith Folger is acutely conscious of the strain COVID-19 has taken on the community she loves. Year-round residents dependent on the island's support structure are ranged against an influx of wealthy mainland expatriates, quarantining in what they perceive as a germ-free, isolated sanctuary. Chief among them: an oblivious bubble of Hollywood glitterati, cohabiting in an expansive island compound, while they film a television series on the Nantucket moors.
When the twenty-eight-year-old female lead is murdered on location, Merry's chosen detective, Howie Seitz, is dispatched to the scene. A number of people might have wanted Clara Forsyte dead: her neurotic personal assistant, her volatile boyfriend, her secret longtime lover, who is also the current U.S. Secretary of State-or Secretary Chenoweth's embittered wife, Sarah.
But while Howie has his hands full with that investigation, Chief Folger responds to a different kind of request: that of a lonely woman at the end of her resources, dying in a derelict house no one has entered for years. Artist Blythe Fitzpatrick has returned to Nantucket as a final act of protest. Can Merry divine a purpose in the woman's death? And how might Blythe's end be linked to the star-struck murder on the moors? Francine Mathews was born in Binghamton, New York, the last of six girls. She attended Princeton and Stanford Universities, where she studied history, before going on to work as an intelligence analyst at the CIA. She wrote her first book in 1992 and left the Agency a year later. Since then, she has written twenty-seven books, including six previous novels in the Merry Folger series (Death in the Off-Season, Death in Rough Water, Death in a Mood Indigo, Death in a Cold Hard Light, Death on Nantucket, and Death on Tuckernuck) as well as the nationally bestselling Being a Jane Austen mystery series, which she writes under the pen name Stephanie Barron. She lives and works in Denver, Colorado.
Chief among Nantucket Island's cherished traditions is Winter Stroll, when evergreen trees line Main Street and tourists and islanders share the spirit of the season in shops and restaurants gilded with firelight. This year, however, is different-the pandemic still threatens the lives of everyone determined to spend a long weekend thirty miles out at sea, with the closest ICU a helicopter flight away.
Nantucket Police Chief Meredith Folger is acutely conscious of the strain COVID-19 has taken on the community she loves. Year-round residents dependent on the island's support structure are ranged against an influx of wealthy mainland expatriates, quarantining in what they perceive as a germ-free, isolated sanctuary. Chief among them: an oblivious bubble of Hollywood glitterati, cohabiting in an expansive island compound, while they film a television series on the Nantucket moors.
When the twenty-eight-year-old female lead is murdered on location, Merry's chosen detective, Howie Seitz, is dispatched to the scene. A number of people might have wanted Clara Forsyte dead: her neurotic personal assistant, her volatile boyfriend, her secret longtime lover, who is also the current U.S. Secretary of State-or Secretary Chenoweth's embittered wife, Sarah.
But while Howie has his hands full with that investigation, Chief Folger responds to a different kind of request: that of a lonely woman at the end of her resources, dying in a derelict house no one has entered for years. Artist Blythe Fitzpatrick has returned to Nantucket as a final act of protest. Can Merry divine a purpose in the woman's death? And how might Blythe's end be linked to the star-struck murder on the moors? Francine Mathews was born in Binghamton, New York, the last of six girls. She attended Princeton and Stanford Universities, where she studied history, before going on to work as an intelligence analyst at the CIA. She wrote her first book in 1992 and left the Agency a year later. Since then, she has written twenty-seven books, including six previous novels in the Merry Folger series (Death in the Off-Season, Death in Rough Water, Death in a Mood Indigo, Death in a Cold Hard Light, Death on Nantucket, and Death on Tuckernuck) as well as the nationally bestselling Being a Jane Austen mystery series, which she writes under the pen name Stephanie Barron. She lives and works in Denver, Colorado.
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