Safe Harbor: A Murder in Nantucket - Softcover

McDonald, Brian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1250025842 ISBN 13: 9781250025845

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin, 2006

Synopsis

Elizabeth Lochtefeld was a glowing, charismatic and driven woman who'd built a million-dollar fortune in Manhattan before settling into a new life in one of America's most elite resort communities. She'd planned to dedicate the rest of her life to charity-and to marry and finally start a family of her own. When Lochtefeld met thrity-seven year-old Tim Toolan-- a tall, strapping, handsome, and Columbia graduate and Wall Street ace who'd made it to Vice President at Smith Barney-she thought she'd found Mr. Right. She told friends she was in love. She hinted at marriage. But soon she saw past the Golden Boy facade, finding a deeply troubled man with a history of erratic bahavior -- a man given to violent mood swings who'd been fired from his position at Smith Barney after trying to steal an $80,000 Roman bust from a Park Avenue antiques show. Two days after she ended the affair, she lay dead on the floor of her Nantucket cottage.This is the story of love gone terribly wrong.

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From the Back Cover

A WOMAN WHO HAD EVERYTHING TO LIVE FOR
Elizabeth Lochtefeld was a glowing, charismatic woman who'd built a million-dollar fortune in New York City before retiring to the fashionable island of Nantucket. At age forty-four, she had everything in life except the one thing she wanted most: true love. When she met thirty-seven year-old Thomas E. Toolan III, a handsome Wall Street ace, she thought she finally found Mr. Right. She was dead wrong.
AND THE MAN WHO TOOK HER LIFE.
Behind Tom's Golden Boy fa ade was a man with a dark history of erratic behavior--a man given to violent mood swings, who'd lost his job after trying to steal an $80,000 Roman bust from a Park Avenue antiques show and that was just the beginning of his vicious downward spiral. Two days after putting an end to the affair, Beth disappeared, never to be seen alive again .
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"The story has all the elements of a grand tragedy, and Beth's life deserves this respectful chronicle."--"Library Journal"
With 8 pages of startling photographs!

About the Author

Brian McDonald contributes frequently to New York City newspapers, including The New York Times. His first book, My Father's Gun, won critical raves and became the subject of a major History Channel documentary series. McDonald is also the author of Last Call at Elaine's and Indian Summer. He lives in Manhattan.

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1250025842
• ISBN 13: 9781250025845
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272