If you looking for a good mystery / beach read / women's fiction novel, check out Andrews' latest. You may feel like your not sure where the author is going with this at first. After all, it has a beach, a conflicted heroine going through some major life changes, deep-seated family problems, and a potential romance, just what you would expect from a novel by Andrews, but the mystery that runs through the novel might throw you off. I'll let you in on something you may not realize, though: Mary Kay Andrews is also mystery author Kathy Hogan Trochek, so maybe the mystery part is not so odd!
Drue Campbell is grieving for her late mother, Sherri, who recently died after a long illness. Drue is in a dead-end job and suffering from a devastating knee injury that has made impossible for her to pursue kite-boarding, her favorite activity. When her estranged father calls he informs her that she is the heir to her grandparents' cottage, she decides to pull up stakes and move to the dilapidated cottage at Sunset Beach, which she proceeds to restore. Her father, now married to her high school nemesis, offers her a job in his law office, which she reluctantly accepts. During the course of her first few weeks on the job, Drue becomes interested in a wrongful death case and starts investigating on her own.
Once I got into this I couldn't put it down. Drue is a strong, likable, and compassionate woman who isn't afraid to pursue justice on behalf of someone else. I'd recommend it.
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