Francine Mathews, who also writes as Stephanie Barron, is the author of twenty-eight novels of mystery, espionage, and historical fiction. O Magazine named her Jane Austen Mystery Series as one “Every Thinking Woman Should Read,” while The New Yorker called Jack 1939 “the most deliciously high-concept thriller imaginable.” Her sixth Meredith Folger Nantucket mystery, Death on Tuckernuck, dropped May 5 from Soho Crime.