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But for now, the Chief is enjoying a night out with his people: Andrea; his son, Eric, and Eric’s girlfriend, Avalon; his best friends, Addison and Phoebe Wheeler and Jeffrey and Delilah Drake; and his daughter, Kacy, a NICU nurse who moved back from California this summer.
Ed worked a case out in Monomoy half a dozen years earlier that he still believes was murder, though they never quite figured it out.
but all Kacy can think of is the woman who went swimming out here at night—she and her friends called themselves the night swimmers—and disappeared.
The name of the boat is written in script on the side in glittering letters: Golden Girl.
They order two glasses of rosé and a dozen fifth points from their bartender Carson Quinboro (a legendary Nantucket badass),
“Kacy?” “Stacy?” They both laugh. “We can’t date unless one of us changes her name,” Stacy says.
Rip does maybe half (he recently took over his father’s insurance business and has three little kids at home).
“On the south shore of Tuckernuck. Tate Cousins was out running and she saw something washed up on the beach.
Ed looks around and realizes he’s surrounded by stories. Fast Eddie and Grace are in attendance, which reminds the Chief of when he had to call the FBI because he suspected Eddie was running a prostitution ring out in Sconset (he was right). When the Chief gets a second beer from Carson Quinboro, he thinks about how the poor girl lost her mother, Vivian Howe, in a hit-and-run accident on Kingsley Road. The tragic stories are the ones that come to mind first—when Penny Alistair drove her Jeep off the end of Hummock Pond Road; when Meredith Delinn was hiding out in Tom Nevers and someone left a
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