When Maggie Marshall isn't dealing with the daily hijinks of her middle school students, she's usually dealing with other types of havoc...as a mother; as caregiver to five unruly dogs, three cats, and a convalescing gull; and, upon occasion, as an ad hoc detective. When a dead body washes ashore on Children's Beach on the island of Nantucket, police call on Maggie to help them understand the connection between this recent murder and what appears...