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Kathleen McInerney gives an engaging narration of this entertaining and suspenseful beach listen AudioFile Magazine

Mary Kay Andrews the New York Times bestselling author and Queen of the Beach Reads delivers her next summer listen 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 Tanyas ex sleazy real estate entrepreneur Evan Wingfield Even in the grip of grief and panic Letty heeds her late sisters warnings If anything bad happens to meits Evan Promise me youll take Maya and run Promise me So Letty grabs her sisters Mercedes and hits the road

With a trunkful of emotional baggage

and her wailing fouryearold niece Maya Letty is determined to outrun Evan and the law but run to where Tanya a woman with a past shrouded in secrets left behind a gobag of cash and a big honking diamond ringbut only one clue a faded magazine story about a sleepy momandpop 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 amp the sharks are circling

And thats the good news Because The Surf as the regulars call it is the winter home of a closeknit flock of retirees and snowbirds who regard this oddduck newcomer with suspicion and downright hostility As Letty settles into the motels former storage room she tries to heal Mayas heartache and unravel the key to her sisters shady past all while dodging the attention of the owners dangerously attractive son Joe who just happens to be a local police detective Can Letty find romance as well as a room at the innor will Joe betray her secrets and put her behind bars With danger closing in its a race to find the truth and right the wrongs of the past

A Macmillan Audio production from St Martins Press