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.

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