Review : Sunset Beach

Sunset Beach by Mary Kay Andrews

Genre: Contemporary 

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Pages: 432

Published: May 7th 2019 by St. Martin's Press

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. 

After her mother passes away there was nothing tying Drue to the life she was leading. When she is told her inheritance of a house that's storm damaged but manageable she heads out to the house. Along with that she finds out her father has been married to her frenemy and they are willing to hire her to work at their firm. Not really left with much choices she takes up their offer and comes across a case that has some suspicious ties to the area she lives and an old missing person case. She ends up looking more into these cases and worries that her father might have something to do with one of the cases and a possible cover up.

I think when first picked up this book I didn't look much into it. I saw the beachy cover and I've been in a beachy summer-y type of book mood that I picked this book up. I recognized the name on the cover and because of the title I just ended up getting it. I was expecting some summer romance fluffy  read. That was not at all what I came across but it turned out so much better then I thought. This is more of a mystery book and I loved reading along with what was going on with Drue seeing her getting deeper into these cold cases putting things together. Sometimes a case just needs another person to have a second go around see things in a new light and I enjoyed every minute of reading this book.