Death in the Off-Season — Francine Mathews

INTRODUCING DETECTIVE FOLGER
Young, savvy, and quite capable, Merry Folger faces her first murder case under the skeptical eye of her overprotective father, the island's police chief--and under scrutiny of one of the oldest, on the island

THE PRODIGAL SON RETURNS
Whatever brought Rusty Mason back to Nantucket Island after a decade of absence is as much a mystery as how he ended up facedown in the flooded cranberry bog on his brother Peter's land. The regal, darkly attractive Peter, seemingly unmoved by his brother's violent death, is not at all inclined to discuss the reasons for Rusty's ten-year exile with Detective Merry Folger. Undaunted, Merry follows a tortured trail through the scandalous secrets of a proud and powerful old family. What she uncovers is a shocking and heartbreaking tale of love, betrayal, and blackmail that has driven one brother into a life of secrecy and seclusion, and sent the other to a watery grave.