Nantucket Mysteries Nantucket hasn't witnessed a murder in decades. But so what? It could. And in the realm of the imagination where Francine and her protaganist meet, it usually does... DEATH IN A COLD HARD LIGHT In Francine Mathews's Death in a Mood Indigo, Detective Meredith Folger's career hit new heights of terror and self-doubt. Now Merry is more than ready for a peaceful vacation, or maybe even wedding plans. So she is not pleased when her police chief father calls her home from Greenwich to investigate what looks like an accidental drowning... To learn what really happened in the midnight waters off Old North Wharf, Merry must confront the truth of her own past. It's a case that will test her loyalties and strain her ties to the people she loves most. What finally is more important - her need for justice, or for Peter Mason? Should she shield her father, or force him to shoulder his share of the blame? When a second body is found, her choice becomes agonizingly clear. Merry cannot allow a dangerous killer to strike again... DEATH IN A MOOD INDIGO In Francine Mathew's first two mysteries, Death in the Off-Season and Death in Rough Water, rookie detective Merry Folger proved to herself and to her father, Nantucket police chief John Folger, that she had what it takes to solve a murder. Now her savvy is being put to the test again. Only this time she may be in over her head. For two small children playing on Sunset beach, it was the stuff of nightmares...digging in the damp sand, hoping to unearth buried treasure, only to uncover a human skeleton But for Detective Merry Folger, who's investigating the case, the real horror isn't revealed until she learns that the bones belonged to a woman who was apparently murdered anywhere between two and ten years ago. DEATH IN ROUGH WATER Detective Merry Folger won the hearts of readers in Francine Mathews's first mystery, Death in the Off-Season. 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. Del Duarte has returned to Nantucket with a baby, but she's keeping quiet about her daughter's parentage. When her own father, Joe, an experienced fisherman, is swept overboard in a spring storm the death is pronounced accidental. Del thinks it's murder and when she and her baby receive threatening letters, Merry defies her own father to investigate. DEATH IN THE OFF-SEASON When Rusty Mason, scion of one of Nantucket's oldest and wealthiest families, is found dead in a flooded cranberry bog one foggy fall night, thirty-two year old detective Meredith Folger is faced with her first murder case. Rusty, it seems, had been absent from the country for over a decade - ever since he was indicted for securities fraud. No one expected him to show up that night. No one, that is, except his killer. Peter Mason, the bog's owner, seems less than moved by his brother's brutal death. The two men, it turns out, had been nursing a decade-old grudge over a woman. Could Peter have killed Rusty, or was Rusty attacked by mistake in the fog - when the killer thought he was Peter?