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Author:

Mathews, Francine.

Title:

Death in a cold hard light / Francine Mathews.

Publisher:

Soho Crime

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

341, 11 pages ; 19 cm.

Subject:

Detective and mystery fiction.
Marine biologists--Nantucket Island--Nantucket Island--Fiction.
Heroin--Nantucket Island--Nantucket Island--Fiction.
Women Detectives--Fiction.
Murder--Investigation.
Folger, Merry (Fictitious character.)
Scallop fisheries--Nantucket Island--Nantucket Island--Fiction.
Folger, Merry (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
Women detectives.
Police chiefs--Nantucket Island--Nantucket Island--Fiction.
Murder--Fiction.--Fiction.
Massachusetts--Nantucket Island.
Nantucket Island (Mass)--Fiction.

Notes:

Originally published in 1998 by Bantam Books.

Summary:

"After a trying case, Merry begrudgingly agrees to take a leave from work to meet her fussy future in-laws in Greenwich, but it isn't long before she is summoned back to Nantucket. The body of a young man was discovered in the Sound the weekend of the annual Christmas Stroll. Although a simple drowning is suspected--the water is hardly above freezing, after all--the death isn't sitting well with Merry's father, the local police chief, who fears the track marks on the victim's arm reveal a growing drug problem on the island. Feeling a constant need to live up to her father's expectations no matter the cost, Merry rushes home, only to find that heroin isn't the only dark cloud above Nantucket. Matt Bailey, another member of the force and the father of a young child, has gone missing. Strangely, no one seems to be concerned. Merry can't get more than a few words out of her father on either of the cases. If the chief wanted her help so badly, why isn't he telling her any of the facts? And why is Bailey's office, normally a mess of papers and dirty dishes, suddenly so clean? Her father might not be talking, but Merry is determined to get some answers, and to prove to her fianc©♭ that her sudden departure from Greenwich wasn't for no reason"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Merry Folger Nantucket mystery ; ; , A 4

ISBN:

1616957565
9781616957568

OCLC:

(OCoLC)954224375

LCCN:

2016054179

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)