A Beautiful Place to Die: A Martha’s Vineyard Mystery

Still relatively young Jeff Jackson is forced to retire as a Boston PD detective due to an injury sustained while working a case that killed his partner, the injury-causing bullet, still lodged in his back, too close to the spinal cord to remove and which causes him occasional physical pain. With his father having recently passed, Jeff has settled on Martha’s Vineyard in his father’s house, the island where Jeff spent much time in the summers growing up. Jeff’s relaxed life of fishing and working on his father’s boat takes a turn when he discovers the murdered dead body of a young man, Ray Norris, he had seen around the marina the preceding day. With Martha’s Vineyard Police Chief Madieras, his father’s best friend, having little history working on murder investigations, Jeff, initially reluctant, eventually accepts the offer to consult on the case. Also working on the case is the Chief’s daughter, Dr. Zee Madieras, Jeff’s childhood friend and now the acting M.E. Ray, who was not …