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Sunset Beach
| Title | Sunset Beach |
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| Date | 2025-07-03 09:48:58 |
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| Link | Listen Read |
Desciption
Pull up a lounge chair and have a cocktail at Sunset Beach – it comes with a twist.Drue Campbell’s life is adrift. Out of a job and down on her luck, life doesn’t seem to be getting any better when her estranged father, Brice Campbell, a flamboyant personal injury attorney, shows up at her mother’s funeral after a twenty-year absence. Worse, he’s remarried – to Drue’s eighth grade frenemy, Wendy, now his office manager. And they’re offering her a job.It seems like the job from hell, but the offer is sweetened by the news of her inheritance – her grandparents’ beach bungalow in the sleepy town of Sunset Beach, a charming but storm-damaged eyesore now surrounded by waterfront McMansions.With no other prospects, Drue begrudgingly joins the firm, spending her days screening out the grifters whose phone calls flood the law office. Working with Wendy is no picnic either. But when a suspicious death at an exclusive beach resort nearby exposes possible corruption at her father’s firm, she goes from unwilling cubicle rat to unwitting investigator, and is drawn into a case that may – or may not – involve her father. With an office romance building, a decades-old missing persons case re-opened, and a cottage in rehab, one thing is for sure at Sunset there’s a storm on the horizon.Sunset Beach is a compelling ride, full of Mary Kay Andrews' signature wit, heart, and charm.
Review
This was my first Mary Kay Andrews book and I'll certainly be reading more of her work. I love the cover of the book which is really misleading because things are much darker in the book than the cover conveys. At the same time, we get to enjoy the beach and a worn out beach house that gets to come alive again as you read the book. In some ways I think the beach house coming alive and the life of Drue, the main character, mirror each other. Drue took some getting used to for me but mostly that was because I needed to understand her background and what had happened in her past, to make her seem so down on just about everything in her life. After learning that she'd been in an accident that ended her involvement of her passion, kite boarding, we also find out that her mother had recently died and Drue's relationship with her live in boyfriend was over, and in the beginning of the book she gets fired from her job as a waitress. With no reason to stay where she was, Drue heads to St. Petersburg to work for her estranged father's ambulance chasing law office., screening calls from potential clients. I really enjoyed the characters in the book because even minor characters seemed to be individuals and Drue's relationship with the various people in the book has the potential to change as she gets to know the people and they get to know her. Drue went from seeming like a grumpy, depressing, too down on her luck character, to someone I could see did care about others and wanted to make a difference in her life and the lives of others. Drue throws herself into researching and investigating an almost forty year old missing person case and also a two year old murder. Most of what she does has to be done on the sly since her dad might have been involved in the missing person case and her dad's firm represented the family of the murder victim, represented badly, as far as Drue is concerned. Drue wants to find out what happened to the missing person and she wants to right the many wrongs in the case of the murder victim and her family. The story has two timelines, as we go back in forth from the present to almost 40 years ago, when Drue's then police officer dad and his partner, interact with the missing woman, before her disappearance. I enjoyed the multi faceted characters and the mysteries the story presents. Published May 7, 2019. Thank you to St. Martin's Press and NetGalley for this ARC.
