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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 Beach: there’s a storm on the horizon. Sunset Beach is a compelling ride, full of Mary Kay Andrews' signature wit, heart, and charm.
Publication Year: 2019
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Thank you to Netgally & St. Martins Press for the ARC of this book in exchange for a honest review.
This is was the first Mary Kay Andrews book I’ve read and I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it. I had seen some of her books advertised on Facebook and they honestly didn’t really appeal to me but when I was offered the book I decided to give it a try.
The book is a combination of chick lit/mystery/light romance which makes it one of those books that’s easy to pick up and read or take to the beach. The main character, Drue, is the right amount of “rough around the edges” to be endearing but she also doesn’t let that toughness get in her way of emotional growth. There is a pretty good twist to the book which was nice considering this isn’t a psychological thriller/literature novel.