Death on a Winter Stroll

After the isolation and losses of the pandemic, Police Chief Merry Folger is eager for Nantucket Island to celebrate Winter Stroll again, to enjoy a weekend beginning with Santa’s arrival by boat. However, other arrivals on the island will kick off homicide investigations. The Secretary of State and her family are there, while a tech billionaire welcomes a TV production team of 80 to the island. The Secretary of State’s stepson, Ansel, and an action star’s daughter, Winter, manage to escape their security to head to town. When Ansel and Winter find the first body that weekend, Merry and her detective, Howie Seitz, must carefully balance a murder investigation with the political and media clout of the suspects. When a second body is found, it’s also connected to the Hollywood group. As she grieves for her own grandfather, felled by COVID, Merry commiserates with the two young people trying to cope with losses in their lives. But she and Howie must still find a killer, despite the links to the two sympathetic visitors.