The High Tide Club by Mary Kay Andrews

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women's fiction

Brooke, a lawyer in coastal Georgia, is summoned to a mostly privately-owned island off the coast to help the elderly owner and resident, Josephine, update her will.  Josephine’s requests require some investigative work and gathering multiple people who are relatives of Josephine’s closest childhood friends--members of The High Tide Club.  The more Brooke searches, the more she learns how she is personally involved in the island’s history and that there are some sinister forces at work.

I have never read Mary Kay Andrews although I’ve certainly heard of her since she is very prolific. I needed an audiobook and the cover design screamed “summer beach read” at me. So, I decided to try it.

It was a pleasant surprise and not light and fluffy as I had imagined from the cover.  As I was approaching the halfway point, I couldn’t imagine how there was still another half of the story remaining.  I thought I knew how it would go, for the most part, and that everything should be wrapped up sooner.  But then Andrews added a new wrinkle.  I liked the story, the characters, and the pace.  I sometimes wondered why she was letting her characters yap on about nothing important at times, but I think it was just her way of allowing the reader to get to know the characters since the entire novel is written in third person.  The mysteries were not difficult to figure out but not too obvious either.  I liked the way she uncovered the explanations with flashbacks to the 1940s.

Overall, a very satisfying read!

I listened to the audiobook narrated by KathleenMcInerney.  I’ve enjoyed her narration in the past and this novel’s narration was up to par. She does a terrific job with voice acting and has different voices in her repertoire.  I give her an A.