This was my first Mary Kay Andrews book and I'll certainly be reading more of her work. I love the cover of the book which is really misleading because things are much darker in the book than the cover conveys. At the same time, we get to enjoy the beach and a worn out beach house that gets to come alive again as you read the book. In some ways I think the beach house coming alive and the life of Drue, the main character, mirror each other. Drue took some getting used to for me but mostly that w...

Sunset Beach by Mary Kay Andrews is a 2019 St. Martin’s Press publication. A perfect beach read mystery! Drue, now in her mid-thirties, finds herself at loose ends, heading in no clear direction. Her mother recently passed away, and an injury ended her competitive days as a kite boarder. Adding insult to injury, she gets fired from her job. As a last resort, she reluctantly accepts a job offer from her estranged father, who is a personal injury lawyer. So, she moves to Sunset Beach and into the...

ꜰᴜɴ. ʙᴇᴀᴄʜʏ. ᴍʏꜱᴛᴇʀʏ. This was an entertaining beach read packed with Mystery and an added splash of romance and family drama. Mary Kay Andrews has written one heck of a perfect beach Mystery. When I pick this up I was expecting a bit more of a contemporary beach romance, but I was pleasantly surprised buy this charming Mystery. I loved being dumped into the middle of Druze messy life and watching her pick up the pieces and solve a couple mysteries. So pick up your detective hat, grab your biki...

Sunset Beach has a little family drama, a little unsolved mystery, a little romance, and a beach setting. Not bad, eh?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

What a Fun, Beach Mystery!Drue finds herself at wit’s end after losing her mom and her job in the same week. Recovering from a sports injury, she is at a loss as to what to do with her life until her estranged father offers her a job at his law firm and informs her that she has inherited her grandparent’s cottage on “Sunset Beach.” With a new lease on life, thirty-something Drue moves to Sunset Beach. There, she starts her job at the firm as an Intake Specialist, working for her father, and his

4.5 Stars...rounded up!Is it truly summer unless you've read a Mary Kay Andrews's book? I look forward to her book coming out every May and the covers always give me serious summer vibes! However, don't let this beach cover fool you, this book has some serious depth!Drue was doing what she loved - kiteboarding and working on the side to bring in some cash. Her life is then turned around when her mother passes and now she's suddenly out of a job. When Drue goes to her mother's funeral her estrang...

Mary Kay Andrews has done it yet again with this new novel, Sunset Beach. Looking at the covers of her novels you would almost expect to be picking up a contemporary romance but instead there has been so much more involved in her stories making them a bit hard to label and classify as any one thing.In Sunset Beach readers meet Drue Campbell who is one of those characters that has really yet to find herself even though she’s in her thirties. Drue’s passion had been kite boarding but she’s had to

It was a con. It was a con that I fell for. The cover of Sunset Beach screamed summer read; and I fell for it. I pictured myself at the beach under a colorful umbrella protecting me from the suns rays. With the cool drink beside me, I would pick up this novel and settle in for a large afternoon of reading but with idyllic day dreaming intruding on the printed page. The cover of the book seemed to promise this.But this is not what I got. Instead of a nice beach read, I got a voyage on a choppy se...

My reviews can also be seen at: https://deesradreadsandreviews.wordpr...I’m surprised that it has taken me this long to read a book by Mary Kay Andrews. However, I’m excited to have found a “new to me” author with such an extensive backlist!Thirty-six-year old Drue Campbell has fifteen minutes to get to work but knows she'll never make it on time. If she was back in Fort Lauderdale, she could call a friend or take an Uber. Unfortunately, Drue just moved back to the west coast so she doesn't have...

The beach chairs on the cover had me when I saw this book being read by many Goodreads friends. What a surprisingly fun summer read!Drue Campbell, a thirty-something cocktail waitress, gets fired and decides to go work for her estranged, attorney father after her mom passes away and moves back to St. Petersburg. She inherits her grandmother’s run down beach cottage at Sunset Beach and decides to get the place back in shape. Secrets are to be found in the old cottage and a mystery unfolds.Mary Ka...

I have only read one other Mary Kate Andrews book and I thought it was just okay. My friend urged me to read more and told me I would not be disappointed. Well boy, am I ever glad I did! This one has been sitting on my TBR shelf for a while and now I'm shaking my head as to why I waited so long to read it!It's a perfect book for this time of year! It's Victoria Day Weekend in Canada and our kick off to summer begins now (and it's already been scorching hot!) I was so in the mood for this book. I...

Four sea breezing, kites flying, sun shining, I didn’t expect to like so much mysterious stars! This is my second round with MKA. I did read Beach town before. It was okay but not on my list of all time favorites! Lately my bad luck with chic lit books made me doubt and a little biased before starting this book. But as soon as I turn the pages, story attracted my full attention, I wanted to know more about our heroine, Drue, her life, motives, dysfunctional family and personal relationships. She...

4 bold stars to Sunset Beach! ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ Drue Campbell is having a hard time. She’s lost her job and nothing sunny is on the horizon. Her mother has passed away, and her father, Brice Campbell, whom she hasn’t seen in over twenty years, shows up to the funeral. The icing on the cake is that Brice is married to Wendy, a frenemy of Drue’s from middle school. Brice and Wendy offer Drue a job at Brice’s personal injury law office…The job doesn’t sound desirable, but Drue also has an inheritance; a

Thanks to Netgalley and St Martin's Press for an e-ARC in exchange for an honest review. Honestly, I didn't read the entire synopsis of this book before heading over to Netgalley to snap it up. So far, Sunset Beach is my favorite deceptive cover of 2019. I feel I need to create this new category because those beach chairs swayed me into thinking this would be straight up contemporary romance. I have never been so delighted to be proven wrong. Yes romance and family drama is present, but when

My thanks to the author, the publisher and NetGalley for an ARC of this novel in exchange for an honest review.So, get ready to go along for a long, bumpy ride as Drue tries to solve an old mystery which may or may not incriminate her estranged father (who recently hired her to come work at his law firm.) I felt the story could have used a fair amount of trimming. By chapter 40, I was ready for this story to come to a graceful conclusion. Well, 65 chapters and one Epilogue later, this very long,...

Technically, this book came in at just a little under 3 stars for me, but it was close enough that I decided to just go with that rating. For me, this one was able to stand out as a “better than average” beach read mostly through the way that the author Mary Kay Andrews was able to incorporate a bona fide mystery into the story that actually did keep my interest but didn’t dive too deep as to overwhelm the rest of the story. I also liked the cast of quirky, unconventional characters and how most...

This is my fifth MKA book, and I didn't enjoy this one as much as the others. This story is about two unsolved mysteries, which Drue (main character) takes upon herself to solve. One is a 40-year old case about a missing woman. The other is a more recent case about a murdered woman.Specifically, here's what didn't work for me:🔸Having Drue doing some amateur sleuthing for not one, but two unsolved mysteries. This entailed a lot of fumbling around and getting into more and more unrealistic situati...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 / 5 (4.5/5)Progression of reading MKA: Read The Weekenders, didn't love it; read The High Tide Club and loved it, so much heart! A mystery! Humor!; reads Sunset Beach BAM, Mary Kay Andrews has officially become an auto-buy author for me. What it's about: Drue Campbell has recently lost both her mom and her job, so when her absentee dad shows up offering to let her work at his law firm, it doesn't take her long to decide she should do it. Luckily, her mom left her a bungalow on Sunset B...

Loved it and highly recommend this as a great beach read! I truly got started and was lost in this one for two days - couldn't put it down. This is my first Mary Kay Andrews read and I'm sure I will be reading more soon. Loved the characters and the plot. There's a couple of mysteries here and a love story as well as a little growing up and being an adult. Drue Campbell was a believable character and I liked the historic beach town setting.At the end Ms. Andrews shares her adventures searching f...