Wrong Beach Island (2002)

Jane Kelly's second Meg Daniels mystery keeps Meg on Long Beach Island, New Jersey, in February, after Dallas Spenser is said to have gone kayaking in the Atlantic at night and her new boyfriend Andy Beck, the dead man's wife's former lover, becomes the police's prime suspect. Her friends in New York follow the case by e-mail and tell her she has terrible taste in men. (Open Library)

Watches

Ebel watch: One friend's e-mail lists the things Meg must promise not to do for a murder suspect, waiting outside with the motor running or carrying a package onto a plane, then reminds her that she promised to leave her the lovely Ebel her parents gave her for high school graduation: if Meg is not careful, the friend will be wearing it to her own wedding on September 15. The maker is named; the model is not.

Source text: You do remember that you promised to leave me that lovely Ebel watch that your parents gave you for high school graduation, right? If you're not careful, I'll be wearing it to my wedding (Jane Kelly, Wrong Beach Island, scan cataloged as Plexus Publishing, 2002, pp. 205 to 206, the sentence running across the page break; Meg is named in the same run of e-mails on pp. 204 to 206; Internet Archive scan OCR)