Mathews, who's lately enjoyed pseudonymous success as Stephanie Barron for her Jane Austen detective novels, is back on Nantucket, where detective Meredith Folger (Death in a Mood Indigo, 1997, etc.) is called by her police chief father to investigate an apparently accidental drowning. Fighting with her civilized fiancÆ’ Peter Mason over her return is only the sorry beginning for Merry, who soon finds herself suspicious of the father who insisted she work the case.