Death at the Cut — Douglas Kiker

It all started with a wild canary.

For what reporter Mac McFarland had thought was a rare Spinus tristus bird turned out to be a yellow Volkswagen, half-submerged in the water near the Cape Cod beach where presidential-hopeful Dolph Bridges happened to be staying.

That might have been the end of it. But when Mac sped to the water to check it out, he found the body of a beautiful young woman still pinned in the passenger seat by her seat belt.

A tragedy, yes. But also a suspicious one. Who had been the driver? Why had the girl been abandoned? At first she appeared to be only a summertime waitress. But gradually Mac discovered that a great many important people knew her, including Senator Bridges himself, who apparently saw her as more than just a pretty face. You might say he knew her intimately in life nd maybe in death....