Book Review: Sunset Beach

I read this book simply because of the author as from reading the Amazon synopsis I wasn't completely sold.  It sounds sort of mediocre to me but I gave it a chance.  It wasn't a big thriller or anything but it was cute and did throw you for a couple loops.  I was waiting on the father and evil step-mother to turn out to be complete frauds but SPOILER ALERT...it isn't them who's the fraud....you will have to read the rest to find out.  There is also a bit f a funny mistaken romance and some good ole fixer upper action on the beach cottage as well so I think this book has a little of something for everyone.  

Amazon Synopsis:

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.