Tuesday, May 24, 2022

May 25th's Can't Wait Wednesday

 It's Wednesday, so that must mean it is time for another Can't Wait Wednesday.

This week, I'm spotlighting The Drowning Sea by Sarah Stewart Taylor.


Isn't that another lovely cover?

This is the third book in the Maggie D'Arcy Mysteries.  Here's the official teaser.

In The Drowning Sea, Sarah Stewart Taylor returns to the critically acclaimed world of Maggie D’arcy with another atmospheric mystery so vivid readers will smell the salt in the air and hear the wind on the cliffs.

For the first time in her adult life, former Long Island homicide detective Maggie D’arcy is unemployed. No cases to focus on, no leads to investigate, just a whole summer on a remote West Cork peninsula with her teenage daughter Lilly and her boyfriend, Conor and his son. The plan is to prepare Lilly for a move to Ireland. But their calm vacation takes a dangerous turn when human remains wash up below the steep cliffs of Ross Head.

When construction worker Lukas Adamik disappeared months ago, everyone assumed he had gone home to Poland. Now that his body has been found, the guards, including Maggie's friends Roly Byrne and Katya Grzeskiewicz, seem to think he threw himself from the cliffs. But as Maggie gets to know the residents of the nearby village and learns about the history of the peninsula and its abandoned Anglo Irish manor house, once home to a famous Irish painter who died under mysterious circumstances, she starts to think there's something else going on. Something deadly. And when Lilly starts dating one of the dead man's friends, Maggie grows worried about her daughter being so close to another investigation and about what the investigation will uncover.

Old secrets, hidden relationships, crime, and village politics are woven throughout this small seaside community, and as the summer progresses, Maggie is pulled deeper into the web of lies, further from those she loves, and closer to the truth.

The first two books in the series were both good, so I'm expecting this to be another good book.  I also enjoyed the author's earlier series, so she's been a favorite for a while.

The book comes out on June 21st.  I have my ARC thanks to Netgalley, so I'll get starting this one soon to have my review ready to go on release day.

7 comments:

  1. It really is a beautiful cover! I'm really curious about this series, I'll have to check it out. :) I hope you enjoy your ARC!

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  2. I agree, that is a lovely cover! This sounds like a great series. Hope you enjoy it! :)

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  3. Love the cover, hope you enjoy this one when you get to read it!

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  4. The cover is gorgeous! The story sounds good, too. I'll have to add it to my TBR stack!

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  5. I have the first one in this series on my TBR and I can't wait. I hope you love this one when you get to it!

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  6. Oh I love the sound of this one. It does sound very atmospheric!

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