The Dead Season

It’s the end of the tourist season in The Hamptons, and

things quiet down—until prominent landowner Berle Avery

is found dead at The Ocean Club Spa. His massage therapist

is convinced he was murdered and asks local P.I. Anna Bartel for

help. Anna accepts the case, even though the police, the coroner

and Avery’s own doctor say there’s no evidence of foul play.

Meanwhile, Special Agent Mark Oberlin has been spending time

in the pine barrens of Montauk, where he’s hidden Nardo, his

informant and key witness in a drug racketeering case. What

Oberlin doesn’t know is that Jim Ryan, a DEA agent who shares

Oberlin’s FBI office, is on the Cartel’s payroll. His assignment is

to track Nardo down and make sure he never testifies.

Nardo’s sudden decision to relocate brings them all together.

Unaware of the danger he’s in Nardo abandons his bare-bones

digs at Phil’s Piney Acres for his ex-wife’s nearby country house.

Anna is convinced there’s a link between his disappearance

and Avery’s death. Her sleuthing takes her from Montauk’s

beachfront mansions and resorts, to the sprawling vineyards

of the North Fork, but as she closes in on her murder suspects,

Nardo manages to stay one step ahead of her, Oberlin, and the

increasingly desperate Agent Jim Ryan—who now has Anna in

his sights as well. What began as a game of cat and mouse, is

now a matter of life and death.