Review of SUNSET BEACH by Mary Kay Andrews

Sunset Beach is not just a fluffy beach read. Not at all! It includes a disappearance of a young woman forty years before the current time and it also includes an unsolved murder that is two years old. I had expected the whole fluffy beach read since this was my first book by this author and I was pleasantly surprised to find a multi-faceted novel, one with many layers and a lot of twists. Drue Campbell is having a hard life after her mother’s death. She has lost her job, can’t do kite boarding any more and is now dependent on her estranged father for a job and a place to live. Her new place to live is a tiny beach house that once belonged to her grandparents. You would think that having to depend on her father for a job would be bad enough, but his office manager is a former classmate of hers who taunts her constantly. Brice Campbell, her father, runs an ambulance chasing law firm and Drue answers phones for him. She discovers the mystery of the missing woman from four decades ago as well as the unsolved murder and sets out to investigate both. This book was full of humorous parts as well as parts that made me just want to cry for poor Drue and her situation. I did not like her father or his new wife Wendy at all, and I thought that Drue was a sympathetic but quirky character. Fans of women’s fiction with suspense and mystery thrown in will enjoy this book that was well-written with an engaging story.

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