Brian McDonald

Safe Harbor: A Murder in Nantucket

Elizabeth Lochtefeld was a glowing, charismatic and driven woman who’d built a million-dollar fortune in Manhattan before settling into a new life in one of America’s most elite resort communities. She’d planned to dedicate the rest of her life to charity and to marry and finally start a family of her own. When Lochtefeld met thirty-seven year-old Tom Toolan, a tall, strapping, and handsome Columbia graduate and Wall Street ace, she thought she’d found Mr. Right. She told friends she was in love. She hinted at marriage. But soon she saw past the Golden Boy facade, finding a troubled man with a history of erratic behavior. Two days after she ended the affair, she lay dead on the floor of her Nantucket cottage.

selected works

True Crime
Safe Harbor: A Murder in Nantucket
Love, deception and death—in the one place where nobody thought that it could happen…
Memoir
Last Call at Elaine’s: A Journey From One Side Of The Bar To The Other
This is a rambunctious story full of self-deprecating humor, addiction, tragedy, outbreak, lies, rowdy nights and laughter.
--Malachy McCourt, author of A Monk Swimming
My Father’s Gun: One Family, Three Badges, One Hundred Years In The NYPD
An unsparing document of the thin line in law enforcement between heroism and infamy
--Publisher’s Weekly
Biography
Indian Summer
"This story deserves a gracious welcome."
--The Boston Globe

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