Search - Down East Murders (Sarah Deane, Bk 2)

If you enjoy "Murder She Wrote", you'll simply be wild about this book.

Sarah Deane, the English teacher cum amateur detective, meets her old friend, Dr. Alex McKenzie, for a summer holiday on a small island off the coast of Maine. But instead of rest, relaxation, and possible romance, Sarah and Alex find the dead body of Nate Harwood, a cantankerous local artist and neighbor, caught in a tangled offshore fish trap. This discovery prompts them to investigate a series of unsolved art thefts and the highly suspicious drowning "accident" of an elderly couple vacationing from Missouri.

Faced with a large cast of possible murderers, each with a particular reason for wanting the obnoxious Nate gone for good, Sarah and Alex attempt to determine whether they've stumbled onto several connected murders--or simply the evidence of a rising crime rate along the Maine coast.