Just for the Summer Laura Van Wormer

Who knew the Hamptons was such a hotbed of murder and corruption? In Laura Van Wormer's Just for the Summer, a favor for an old friend turns into a phantasmagoria of sex, money, and death. The protagonist in this tale of murder-most-financial is Mary Liz Scott, a gorgeous 32-year-old investment banker who comes to Long Island to help her godmother go through some financial records belonging to Mary Liz's late godfather. Faster than you can say "junk bond," Mary Liz encounters Julius, Claude, Buck, Charles, Randolph, and a host of other unsavory Hamptonites--all suspects in the death of a shady financier. Just for the Summer is aptly named, in that it is ideal reading for anyone slightly stunned by too much fun in the sun. Neither the story, the characters, nor the mystery itself will prove too taxing, but certainly Van Wormer's tale of sex, death, and money among Long Island's upper crust will provide hours of breezy entertainment for those long summer days.