Death on Tuckernuck
- Authors
- Francine Mathews
- Publisher
- Soho Press
- Tags
- fiction
- Date
- 2020-03-26T16:01:15Z
- Size
- 0.72 MB
- Lang
- en
In the Category 3 winds of a late-season hurricane, Nantucket police detective Merry Folger and her team attempt a rescue off the secluded island of Tuckernuckonly to discover a deadly secret. As a Category 3 hurricane bears down on Nantucket, Dionis Mather and her father have their work cut out for them: their family business is to ferry goodsand peopleback and forth from Tuckernuck, the private island off Nantucket's western tip, a place so remote and exclusive that it is off the electric grid. As caretakers of the small plot of sand in the middle of the Atlantic, the Mathers are responsible for evacuating Tuckernuck's endangered residents, who range from a stubborn elderly native who refuses to leave her family home to the abandoned summer house pets of an absentee NFL quarterback. But as the storm surge rises and the surf warnings mount, Dionis has to make a choice: abandon whateveror whoeverwas left behind, or risk her own...