Murder Down the Shore: A Jersey Shore Mystery [Mass Market Paperback]

A perfect beach companion. -- Staten Island Advance

Beth Sherman delivers a solid plot with surprising twists that will fool even veteran mystery readers. -- Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel

Defininitely a beach book. -- New York Times

Ghostwriter Anne Hardaway is a delightful mix of humor, pragmatism, and vulnerability. -- Margaret Maron

One becomes instantly entranced with the players and their surroundings...keeps the reader hanging on to the final pages. -- The Times at the Jersey Shore

Sherman continues to show her affinity for good storytelling rife with twists and insight. -- Albany Times Union

It seemed like a good idea at the time to Anne Hardaway: a jolly family reunion in the sun and sand of Oceanside Heights on the Jersey Shore. But it turns out to be the last gathering of any kind for wealthy Great-aunt Hannah, who is discovered on the beach viciously stabbed to death...by a knife taken from Anne's own kitchen!

With a $50 million inheritance at stake, any one of her kin could be the culprit, but it's Anne whom the evidence accuses. A killer isn't satisfied yet, however. As the professional ghostwriter/amateur sleuth intensifies her hunt for the blood relative with a taste for blood, Anne realizes her options are growing frighteningly limited. She can spend the rest of her life in prison...or lose it right now!

Beth Sherman is a writer and editor based in New York City. She writes a bi-weekly column, "Design and Decor," for Newsday that gives decorating tips and home-related advice. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, The New York Post, Cosmopolitan, Ladies' Home Journal, Harper's Bazaar, Martha Stewart Living, Bride's, Fitness, Working Woman, House Beautiful, American Health, Parents, and many other publication. Dead Man's Float is her first mystery. She summers on the New Jersey shore.