Sunset Beach: A Novel [B2158]

2020 PB, clean with minor wear. The bestselling author and Queen of the Beach Reads delivers her next blockbuster: Sunset Beach is a compelling ride, full of Mary Kay Andrews' signature wit, heart, and charm. 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.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "I just love Mary Kay Andrews (who I recently discovered is Kathy Hogan Trochek whose House Mouse PI novels I read in the 90s and early 2000s). The story is multilayered and filled with humor and twists that are vintage MKA. It was the perfect read for the summer -light and funny and mysterious with a good ending."; "A summer beach read for sure. Such a lovely story where family comes together and love is always near. A beautiful love story with lots of cozy mystery included."; "First MKA book I've read. I enjoyed the book, which was based in an area we used to vacation in."; "Very good. A little mystery with some romance. A little slow at times but kept my interest to want to keep reading."