Murder In Montauk

The Blake sisters, Whitt and Finley, their mother, and Finley’s best friend, Mooney, head out to the beaches of Montauk, Long Island for a girls’ weekend to celebrate Mama’s birthday. Their plans for lots of spa, sun and sand are interrupted when a body is found on a massage table at the spa and a masseuse is implicated. Still reeling from a relationship gone wrong, Finley has returned from Morocco and is preparing to pick up the pieces of her life in Manhattan with the support of her friend, Mooney, and that of her family. Daddy spares no expense in planning a blow-out weekend to celebrate Mama’s 60th in style and enlists the help of the sisters to ensure that all of Mama’s wishes come true. But when a day at the spa turns deadly, Whitt and Finley must put themselves in danger to prove that the person accused of the crime is innocent. Join these wander-lusting sisters as they put the pieces of the puzzle together to get justice for the innocent in this tale of patchouli and a patch.

Charlie Anderson, a reporter on leave from the Boston Globe, becomes entangled in an unusual mystery when he stumbles upon a news article about his own death. Confused and still very much alive, Charlie travels to Montauk, Long Island, to learn more about the deceased man and learns more about himself in the process. The MICHIGAN Reading Plus Readers are original fiction written for students who wish to improve their reading skills. The MICHIGAN Reading Plus Readers support the need for extensive reading on topics of interest to today's students. The Readers offer students books in the genres of mystery, science-fiction, and romance. Activities that practice vocabulary and reading skills are provided on the companion website.

Born to Die: The Montauk Murders is set amongst the glitz and glamour of the Beau Monde. The 80th birthday of Miranda Richards, an art-world icon, boasts the party of the summer at her exclusive mansion on Long Island. Old resentments and convoluted relationships bubble to the surface as an eclectic, A-list cast of characters celebrate at a Masked Ball. The luxurious trappings of success, however, don't hinder the agenda of an invited guest with a score to settle. Friends and family are left to wonder--- Will I be next? Follow Detective Steele as he sifts through the evidence before the killer strikes again.

Richard Prince's new who dunnit like his first novel, Montauk The Disappearances, takes place in the exciting village of Montauk, NY. This time a murder in the woods, with the weapon an arrow, triggers a call to the Chief Suffolk County Medical Examiner to help the local police solve what turns out to be the first in a series of brutal killings.

Murder in Montauk is a collection of short stories set primarily in the Long Island, New York area. The mostly professional and charismatic cast is featured in highly colored stories that vary from Russians stealing US security secrets to struggling young musicians on their way to success. A sampling of these stories: A series of mysterious callers contact Sid Landeman in "Voices in the Night." The mysterious calls come around the same time every night. Strangers ask about his deceased mother, and they know intimate details about Sid's family, but neither his father nor siblings know the callers. Allison Causely's body appears on the beach where her former Goldman Sachs colleagues surf in "Murder in Montauk." Bill Lee, a former New York City police officer freelancing with federal authorities, investigates Allison's volatile relationship with a wealthy businessman to discover clues about her murder. In "Reunion Love," Alice and Chad see each other again at their high school reunion. Their on-again-off-again love affair ended many years ago, but they continued to carry a flame for each other. During a long discussion away from their high school friends, Alice and Chad revealed their true feelings and some of their secrets from the years after their final breakup. However, Alice was careful to keep her darkest secret to herself. These fascinating stories showcase wanderings through the labyrinth of life.

An epic and cinematic novel by debut author Nicola Harrison, Montauk captures the glamour and extravagance of a summer by the sea with the story of a woman torn between the life she chose and the life she desires. Montauk, Long Island, 1938. For three months, this humble fishing village will serve as the playground for New York City’s wealthy elite. Beatrice Bordeaux was looking forward to a summer of reigniting the passion between her and her husband, Harry. Instead, tasked with furthering his investment interest in Montauk as a resort destination, she learns she’ll be spending twelve weeks sequestered with the high society wives at The Montauk Manor—a two-hundred room seaside hotel—while Harry pursues other interests in the city. College educated, but raised a modest country girl in Pennsylvania, Bea has never felt fully comfortable among these privileged women, whose days are devoted not to their children but to leisure activities and charities that seemingly benefit no one but themselves. She longs to be a mother herself, as well as a loving wife, but after five years of marriage she remains childless while Harry is increasingly remote and distracted. Despite lavish parties at the Manor and the Yacht Club, Bea is lost and lonely and befriends the manor’s laundress whose work ethic and family life stir memories of who she once was. As she drifts further from the society women and their preoccupations and closer toward Montauk’s natural beauty and community spirit, Bea finds herself drawn to a man nothing like her husband –stoic, plain spoken and enigmatic. Inspiring a strength and courage she had almost forgotten, his presence forces her to face a haunting tragedy of her past and question her future. Desperate to embrace moments of happiness, no matter how fleeting, she soon discovers that such moments may be all she has, when fates conspire to tear her world apart...

"[A] riveting account of a fishing boat and its four young crewman lost at sea in 1984 off the coast of Montauk in eastern Long Island--a "fishing town with a drinking problem," as the locals have it--and the stunning repercussions of that loss for the families and friends of the four missing men and, indeed, the entire storied summer community of the Hamptons"--

Dark mysteries come to East Hampton while a struggling lawyer fights to save his friend from being framed for a triple murder. Montauk lawyer Tom Dunleavy's client list is woefully small-occasional real estate closings barely keep him in paper clips. So when he is hired to defend a local man accused in a triple murder in East Hampton, he knows that he has found the case of his lifetime. The crime turns the glittering playground for the super-rich into a blazing inferno. Dunleavy's client is a local hero, but he knows the case rests on money, deception, and forbidden desires. His client will be framed-unless he can find the key to the case. When Dunleavy is joined by his former flame, the savvy and well-connected attorney, Kate Costello, he believes he has a chance. But payback is a bitch, especially from the rich. The violent retaliations of billionaires threatened by his investigation exceed anything Dunleavy has ever seen. With the entire nation's eyes on him in a new Trial of the Century, Dunleavy orchestrates a series of revelations that lead to a stunning outcome-and the truth is wilder than anything he ever imagined.

A serial killer is stalking women across Long Island. Daisy Fleabane is called in to assist the Chief of Detectives, her friend Harry Kasin, track down the killer. The path of the killer leads to a confrontation at the Montauk Point Lighthouse and Daisy is forced to confront the killer to save her husband.