Last week I decided I wanted to read something to put me in the summer mood and I picked up Mary Kay Andrews book Summers at the Saint. I loved that it was a mystery and brought best friends back together, I loved the underdog making it to the big time and I loved the setting! I also discovered in listening to an interview with the author that she writes under a pseudonym using her children's first names, which was a fun new fact for me.
So the hotel is in a small town and you can be from the right side of the tracks or the wrong one, and if you are from the wrong one the reason you might be at the hotel is because you work there. Years ago Traci and her best friend were lifeguard there. Traci fell in love with the son of the owner and her friend lost her job after a child died in the pool and lost touch with her friend. Fast forward a couple decades and Traci has lost her husband and is fighting his family to keep running the hotel the way he wanted to while his brother manages the land interests for the family. Add in a group of young people living in a dorm setting working at the resort, some drugs and murder, some missing mattresses and liquor, and some uncovering of family secrets and you have a fun summer read. While I did not read this on a beach, it would make a great beach or poolside read. I loved her summer book last year too!
I would give this four or five starts, I think on Goodreads I said 4 but thinking back I really liked the mystery element and might need to go back in and make a change. I can recall many a summer that I would read library mysteries on my bed after coming home from the pool, warm and tired from the water and would immerse myself in solving a mystery. This was a great start to my summer reading!
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