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.