Death In A Cold Hard Light: A Merry Folger Nantucket Mystery

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Merry Folger is ready for a romantic vacation with her fiance Peter when fate - and her police chief father - intervenes. 21-year-old Jay Santorski never should have drowned in the frigid waters off the Nantucket shore. What was the athlete and Harvard scholar doing out alone in the stormy bay At her father's insistence Merry returns to the island to investigate, only to be confronted by false leads and dead ends. And Police Chief John Folger is behind too many of these roadblocks. For the first time, Merry begins to feel she cannot trust her lifelong role model - her own father...

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Praise for Death in a Cold Hard Light

An admirable, well-written series, with Folger evolving into an ever more complex character as love and loyalty collide with her professional pride and ethics.
The Orlando Sentinel

Mathews writes appealingly, making her characters human, fallible, and thoughtful and her story line always believable. Essential for all mystery collections.
Library Journal

Dark, taut, and unsettling . . . A nail-biting pace.
Booklist

Atmospheric . . . Action-filled.
Publishers Weekly

Author Bio

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-five books, including four other novels in the Merry Folger series (Death in the Off-Season, Death in Rough Water, Death in a Mood Indigo, and Death on Nantucket) as well as the nationally bestselling Being a Jane Austen mystery series, which she writes under the penname Stephanie Barron. She lives and works in Denver, Colorado.