Francine Mathews, Author . Bantam $23.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-553-10913-9
Mathews, writing as Stephanie Barron, has had considerable success splicing mystery plots with the real-life story of novelist Jane Austen. Now she takes another true story, that of a legendary American spy and silk merchant named Jim Thompson, and...
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Francine Mathews, Author . Bantam $24 (336p) ISBN 978-0-553-80330-3
Picking up where Mathews's action-packed spy thriller The Cutout
(2001) left off, brassy, resilient CIA intelligence analyst Catherine Carmichael sifts through the shrapnel after her clash in Europe with a faction of neo-Nazi killers called 30...
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Francine Mathews, Author . Bantam $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-553-80331-0
Imagine the impeccable period details of Alan Furst's novels about Paris during WWII mixed with a cast straight out of Casablanca
and you begin to get some idea of the pleasures on tap in Mathews's new thriller (after 2005's Blown
)....
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Francine Mathews, Author William Morrow & Company $22 (246p) ISBN 978-0-688-13473-0
Nantucket police detective Merry Folger sails surely through choppy seas of murder, insurance fraud and infidelity in her second outing (after Death in the Off-Season). Merry's childhood pal Del Duarte, unmarried and with a two-year-old daughter,...
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Francine Mathews, Author William Morrow & Company $23 (318p) ISBN 978-0-688-13443-3
Spunky but inexperienced, third-generation Nantucket cop Meredith Folger investigates murder in this spare, atmospheric debut. Wealthy farmer Peter Mason is shocked to learn of his estranged brother's return to the island. Rusty, who'd fled to...
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Francine Mathews, Author Bantam Books $22.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-553-10463-9
A dog that digs up a skeleton on a beach starts an investigation that reveals a series of homicides and adulterous liaisons in the latest cast for Nantucket Police Detective Meredith Folger (Death in Rough Water, 1995). In the process, Merry is...
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Francine Mathews, Author Bantam Books $23.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-553-10893-4
The kidnapping of the U.S. vice-president, Sophie Payne, sets off a firestorm of CIA intelligence and rescue activity in this first espionage thriller by Mathews, the popular author of the Merry Folger mystery series. After making a controversial...
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Francine Mathews. Riverhead, $26.95 (368p) ISBN 978-1-59448-719-4
President Franklin Roosevelt recruits 21-year-old John F. Kennedy to be his personal spy in this imaginative, well-researched mix of fact and fiction. In February 1939, FDR meets secretly with a sickly Jack, whom one of his Harvard professors has...
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Francine Mathews. Riverhead, $27.95 (368p) ISBN 978-1-59463-179-5
Mathews (Jack 1939) delivers a literate and sophisticated what-if historical thriller. In 1943, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin gather in Tehran, where the ostensible allies must find common ground in the fight against Nazi...
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Francine Mathews. Soho Crime, $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-61695-737-7
Last seen in 1998’s Death in a Cold Hard Light, police detective Meredith “Merry” Folger is trying to finalize the details of her wedding as the Fourth of July approaches, in Mathews’s intriguing fifth mystery set on Nantucket. When a body is found...
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Francine Mathews, read by Matthew Brenner. Penguin Audio, , unabridged, 9 CDs, 11.5 hrs., $40 ISBN 978-1-61176-367-6
Combining historical fact with thriller fiction, Mathews’s nonstop novel takes us to wartime Iran in 1943, when Allied world leaders Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin are about to meet in the Soviet Union’s Tehran embassy to...
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Francine Mathews, Author, Ellen Archer, Read by , read by Ellen Archer. Tantor Audio $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4001-0313-3
The Alibi Club is one of those Paris hot spots where Memphis Jones (a stand-in for Josephine Baker) holds sway and where both political and sexual connections are made. But on the eve of the 1939 German invasion of Paris, even the spectacular show...
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Francine Mathews. Soho Crime, $27.95 (264p) ISBN 978-1-61695-993-7
Much of the action of Mathews’s gripping sixth Merry Folger mystery (after 2017’s Death on Nantucket) occurs on Tuckernuck, “the small island trailing like an afterthought off the western end of Nantucket.” At the end of September, most of...
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Francine Mathews. Soho Crime, $27.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-64129-274-0
In December, Nantucket would be desolate and bleak, except for the Christmas Stroll event—the first since Covid began—which lends the town a festive air in Mathews’s knotty seventh Merry Folger mystery (after 2020’s Death on Tuckernuck). Two...
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