Mary Kay Andrews - The Newcomer review

This book was very enjoyable! While it wasn’t heavy on the romance, there was some. I love me a good beach/pool read and this one was it! There was a lot happening in this story. There’s mystery and a HUGE sense of danger lurking. There’s murder and then there’s a heavy older folks presence. The snowbirds are staying at The Murmuring Surf to escape the cold North. I liked their antics and their attitudes. The way Mary Kay describes them, the reader can picture them perfectly! 

Letty is on the run and she’s at a loss for what to do. She knows she simply needs to lie low. She has Maya to think about and doesn’t want to upset the little girl more than necessary. I enjoyed the way Ava took her under her watchful eye and even though she gave Letty a chance, Letty also gave back to Ava. These women hadn’t known each other long but they helped one another. Letty is stronger than she realizes and she is a feisty mama bear! I enjoyed the way Letty’s story unfolded and I couldn’t read it fast enough. I had to know what was coming at them next and would they find their way?! I highly recommend this book to get yourself lost in! 

Mary Kay Andrews, the New York Times bestselling author and Queen of the Beach Reads delivers her next page-turner for the summer with The Newcomer.

In trouble and on the run...

After she discovers her sister Tanya dead on the floor of her fashionable New York City townhouse, Letty Carnahan is certain she knows who did it: Tanya’s ex; sleazy real estate entrepreneur Evan Wingfield. Even in the grip of grief and panic Letty heeds her late sister’s warnings: “If anything bad happens to me—it’s Evan. Promise me you’ll take Maya and run. Promise me.”

With a trunkful of emotional baggage...

So Letty grabs her sister’s Mercedes and hits the road with her wailing four-year-old niece Maya. Letty is determined to out-run Evan and the law, but run to where? Tanya, a woman with a past shrouded in secrets, left behind a “go-bag” of cash and a big honking diamond ring—but only one clue: a faded magazine story about a sleepy mom-and-pop motel in a Florida beach town with the improbable name of Treasure Island. She sheds her old life and checks into an uncertain future at The Murmuring Surf Motel.

The No Vacancy sign is flashing & the sharks are circling...

And that’s the good news. Because The Surf, as the regulars call it, is the winter home of a close-knit flock of retirees and snowbirds who regard this odd-duck newcomer with suspicion and down-right hostility. As Letty settles into the motel’s former storage room, she tries to heal Maya’s heartache and unravel the key to her sister’s shady past, all while dodging the attention of the owner’s dangerously attractive son Joe, who just happens to be a local police detective. Can Letty find romance as well as a room at the inn—or will Joe betray her secrets and put her behind bars? With danger closing in, it’s a race to find the truth and right the wrongs of the past.