Drue has had a bad run of luck. She was about to turn pro as a kiteboarder when a knee injury ended things for her. Her mother just died, leaving her broke and homeless, and then her estranged father turns up at her mother’s funeral.
Her father comes bearing a job offer at his law firm and news that she has inherited her grandparents’ condo on Sunset Beach. The last thing she wants to do is take a handout from her father but she’ll need money to rehab the condo, which has seen years of neglect.
Then she discovers her father’s new wife—his much younger new wife—is her former best friend turned worst enemy. And she’s the law firm’s office manager to boot. She wants to make Drue’s life miserable enough so she’ll quit, but Drue refuses to give her the satisfaction.
When Drue learns of a case the firm was handling, in which a young woman who was working as a hotel housekeeper was murdered, and thinks it was settled unfairly to the victim’s family, she decides to do some digging on her own. And when she finds what appears to be the official police files of a decades-old missing persons case in the condo’s attic, she can’t resist looking into that as well. But will she discover her father was at fault in either of these? Does this amateur investigative work put her in danger?
I’ll admit I thought was going to be a lighthearted, beach-related romp, but that’s what I get for reading a book without seeing what it’s about! I enjoyed this, though; obviously you have to suspend your disbelief when you have a neophyte investigating cases, but Mary Kay Andrews’ writing had a relaxed, compelling vibe and she threw in some good twists and turns.
Sunset Beach was an enjoyable read which gave me the beachy feel without tracking sand in the house!!
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