Scone Island : an Ike Schwartz mystery
(Book)

Ike Schwartz, Sheriff of Picketsville, Virginia, and his fiancee Ruth Dennis, the President of a local university, cannot find peace and quiet at home after a trying year of academic and local politics. So, they elect to seek asylum on Scone Island, a rocky island four miles off the coast of Maine. Its lack of electricity, reliable water supply, and phone service guarantee their seclusion and peace. The fact that a suspicious accident resulted in the death of the mysterious Harmon Staley should not concern them at all. And it doesn't, until Ike's past as a CIA agent rolls in on him like the area's famous twelve foot tides. Two more murders involving former colleagues elsewhere in the country send Ike's old CIA friend, Charlie Garland, searching the files for a connection. Stonewalling by the CIA and conspiracies, real and imagined, leave Ike and Ruth facing an unknown number of determined assassins alone on the island.