Publisher's Synopsis
When Dr. Fred is murdered at the exclusive Sands Beach Club and draped over the railing of a cabana to moon the beautiful beach it's as bad a beginning to the season as the year the chef spoiled the tuna salad with two much mayonnaise. Not any worse, though. Because no one liked Dr. Fred much. Indeed, as Lieut. Donna Pacheco of the State Police and Matt Borg, editor of the smallest daily newspaper in the smallest state in the Union discover, just about everyone hated him. With good reason. For while Dr. Fred was smart, handsome and as charming as could be, he was also a womanizing predator, a sneak and someone you could not trust as far as you could throw the whole Sands Beach Club. He was a man who used secrets to hurt even those closest to him, a physician who took advantage of his profession to seduce and blackmail the women who loved him. His cruelty even extended to the doyen of society in the state, Mrs. Westfield, and her four daughters, the beautiful girls their mother had assured would marry rich men, regardless of the consequences or their happiness. Was Dr. Fred blackmailing the girls? Maybe. Their mother? Probably. He was blackmailing almost everyone else. Mean as he was, Dr. Fred had at least one friend, the husband of one of their daughters. But, sure enough, he would be murdered too. And he would be regretted almost as little as Dr. Fred, as Donna and Matt quickly discover. Eventually the detective and the newsman untangle the web of history and family that encircles the exclusive Sands Beach Club and come up with the murderer.
