Death In Rough Water

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Detective Merry Folger won the hearts of readers in Francine Mathews's first mystery, Death in the Off-Season (Soho Press, 2016, also available). Now, fresh from her first murder case in that book, Merry Folger is unwillingly sucked into her second. The daughter of the Nantucket police chief, Merry spent her first case proving to her father and herself that she had what it takes to solve a murder. Now she's more savvy and experienced, but this time one of her friends is involved.

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Praise for the Merry Folger mystery series

"Nantucket and its impenetrable, secretive fog and characters come to life in Mathews's capable hands."
Diane Mott Davidson

"Mathews uses her setting and its unique population skillfully."
The San Diego Union-Tribune

"Detective Merry Folger comes across as a real person, albeit a smart one, with doubts and concerns."
The Denver Post

"Merry Folger sails surely through choppy seas of murder, insurance fraud and infidelity in her second outing . . . Mathews skillfully incorporates close-knit relationships, small-town gossip and a salty Nantucket flavor."
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 a Mood Indigo, Death in a Cold Hard Light, 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.