Death in A Mood Indigo

Reading is not my favorite pastime. I tend to shy away from reading as much as I can, until I found Death In A Mood Indigo by Francine Mathews. Sitting all alone on a shelf at my work I thought I'd pick it up and read it - I did. Right from the beginning, Mathews enlightened me with excellent vocabulary and in-depth descriptions of the current happenings. Throughout the book, Mathews displays excellent character construction and well thought out scenes with bone-chilling suspense - a logical novel that needs brain power to conjure the twists and turns written on each page. Death In A Mood Indigo is defintely a page turner that will keep you reading and reading and reading and reading...

Reading is not my favorite pastime. I tend to shy away from reading as much as I can, until I found Death In A Mood Indigo by Francine Mathews. Sitting all alone on a shelf at my work I thought I'd pick it up and read it - I did. Right from the beginning, Mathews enlightened me with excellent vocabulary and in-depth descriptions of the current happenings. Throughout the book, Mathews displays excellent character construction and well thought out scenes with bone-chilling suspense - a logical novel that needs brain power to conjure the twists and turns written on each page. Death In A Mood Indigo is defintely a page turner that will keep you reading and reading and reading and reading...

I really enjoyed Death in A Mood Indigo, it was an atmospheric and absorbing story. Merry's character, a Sconset police detective is different than the usual hard edged policewomen that I read about. She has a feminine side, makes mistakes, and has a life (at least on weekends) aside from her police work. The other characters in this story, her father, grandfather, boyfriend Peter, the townspeople, victims, suspects and FBI agents are also well written and provide just the right mix for a great book. My only problem was that it was easy to guess who perpetrated the crime. I like to be surprised and I wasn't. I did run right out though, when I finished it, and purchased Death In A Cold Heard Light. I also tried to find her two earlier books that are alluded to in the story, but found that they are out of print-I ordered them anyway and am crossing my fingers that I eventually get them.

This book was fantastic. I couldn't put it down! I finished the book at 2:15 a.m. on a work night. It was well worth the lack of sleep! Francine Mathews gets better with each book. I can't wait for her next one. I would highly recommend this series.

On a dreary Spring day, two lonely and disconsolate children, Nan and Cecil Markham, are playing by themselves on a Nantucket beach when the little girl find a human skeleton buried in the sand. The case is assigned to police detective Meredith Folger, who almost immediately finds herself struggling over jurisdiction. The state police and the FBI are working a serial killer case that they feel is linked to Folger's investigation. ..... The remains turn out to be Dr. Elizabeth Osborne, who disappeared without a trace about eight years ago. Just before Elizabeth vanished, she shared a torrid love affair with the also missing Ian Markham, father of the two children. Merry looks back over the intervening eight years to see if some clues might still exist. The husband appears to be the prime suspect in Elizabeth's murder. However, as Merry gets closer to the truth, the FBI warns Merry to back off as they feel her case links to their serial killer case. Still Merry continues her inquiries regardless of the feelings of the rival departments, hoping that one of them will solve a murder long unavenged. ...... DEATH IN A MOOD INDIGO will leave readers in a positive mood after reading a fabulous who-done-it/police procedural. The story line is exciting and well written, but it is the ending that will blow the audience's mind. Merry Folger in her third outing is already one of the best distaff American police officers in fiction today. This reviewer strongly recommends the three Folger novels as well as the author's two Jane Austen Mystery series (written under the name Stephanie Barron). All five novels are superb. ......Harriet Klausner