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Love, Danger, Homecomings & Heart β€” Your June Reading Escape Starts Here

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One disastrous night. One devastating man. One diabolical proposition.


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Death In A Cold Hard Light by Francine Mathews

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Death In A Cold Hard Light, May 1999
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DEATH IN A COLD HARD LIGHT
By: Francine Mathews

Bantam
May 1999
On Sale: May 4, 1999
352 pages
ISBN: 0553576259
EAN: 9780553576252
Paperback (reprint)
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Mystery Woman Sleuth

Merry Folger is more than ready for a romantic vacation with her fiancΓ© Peter when fate--and her police chief father--intervenes. Twenty-one-year-old Jay Santorski never should have drowned in the frigid waters off the Nantucket shore. What was the athlete, Harvard scholar, and part-time scalloper doing out alone in the storm- churned bay?

At her father's insistence--and over Peter's objections--Merry returns to the island to investigate, only to be confronted at every turn by false leads and dead ends. And Police Chief John Folger is behind too many of these roadblocks. For the first time, Merry begins to feel she cannot trust her lifelong role model--her own father....

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