The High Tide Club by author Mary Kay Andrews is one of her best yet in my opinion! I really enjoyed the characters and the mysteries. The author carefully weaves more than one secret and mystery into the story. The beginning of the main secret begins on Talisa Island in 1941 between four friends. The full tale is told in different sequences by different characters. I won't post spoilers, but there is a lot of emotions, secrets, and lies told over the years which will affect each of the girls in some way.
In the present day, Josephine Bettendorf Warrick is 99 years old and is dying of end stage lung cancer. She contacts a young attorney Brooke Trappnel and asks her to come to the island to discuss a legal matter. The state has been trying to take the property from Josephine because of the derelict condition of the once grand mansion. Josephine wants to fight till the end to keep her property from becoming another state-owned coastal park. The old lady also wants Brooke to help her locate the remaining three friends Millie, Ruth, and Varina or their heirs so she can make amends before she dies. These are the girls of the High Tide Club, Josephine's friends who pledged to come together and party under a full moon and swim together.
Josephine dies before she can tell the complete story of why she wants to make amends. So the secret is still to be uncovered even after her death. Anytime there is a lot of money to inherit, there are family members ready to claim what they consider their part.
Brooke has a secret in her personal life, also. She is a single mother of a three-year-old son. Brooke is the only person who knows the identity of the father. She has her reasons, but her life is beginning to become complicated.
A very intriguing mystery with romance and murder and most of all, exposing secrets for the benefit of a new generation of strong women!
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"Sea of Secrets"
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