Swan Song
Bull and Leslee Richardson buy their way into Nantucket society with a twenty-two-million-dollar house, a yacht, and an aggressive campaign of parties. Their new personal concierge, Coco Coyle, has a front-row seat to the marriage and to the island's careful hierarchies. Then the house burns to the ground while the Richardsons are out on the water, and Coco is nowhere to be found.
Chief of Police Ed Kapenash is days from retirement when the fire drags him back to work, and the investigation becomes a tour through summer-colony money, resentment, and the reputations people will spend anything to protect.
Elin Hilderbrand's final Nantucket novel works as both a beach-season mystery and a farewell to the island she has written for thirty years, populated with the gossip, restaurants, and long-running residents her readers know.
The Richardsons' personal concierge, who disappears the night of the fire.
Nantucket's chief of police, pulled back from retirement for a final case.
Half of the couple whose arrival unsettles the island.
A wealthy newcomer buying his way into Nantucket society.