Beach Thriller by Jamie Day

Getting ready for a long Memorial Day weekend? Heading out to the beach – or just chilling in the comfort of your own home? Whatever you’re doing on the warm summer days ahead, be sure you grab a copy of another stellar thriller by Jamie Day. This one is aptly titled: Beach Thriller!

The book opens with “a watcher” – someone roaming the streets unseen, unheard – collecting people’s secrets. The “watcher” is zeroing in on Holly, an author from New York, now back in Beauport, Massachusetts – her home some twenty plus years ago.

It’s not by choice. She’s a previous successful writer, who is now hitting the skids. She’s trying to pull her life together and get back on track – and back on top with a new best-seller. Down her her luck and down on her money, at least she can stay at her mother’s beach cottage. Mom is long gone, but it’s free rent in a quiet beach town.

But Beauport is cauldron of painful memories – memories that constantly haunt her. It was here in Beauport that her sister, Ana, was killed in an explosion while in a guest house on the wealthy Carmichael’s estate. Ana was 24, Holly was 22.  The case was closed, ruled as “accidental death.”

But was it? Things never did add up to Holly. In fact, she started putting her thoughts down on paper as to the circumstances leading up to Ana’s death. She could turn it into a book – but it would be a book with no ending. Now as she re-visits her “set aside” manuscript, she can’t help but dredge up the past. Maybe it’s time to finally “finish” the story – even if it never it never gets published.

Being here in Beauport gives Holly the perfect opportunity to, once and for all, get the answers she desperately needs so she can put this tragedy behind her.

The matriarch of the Carmichael family, Maeve, plagued by failing health, still rules and reigns. Her son, Conrad, once involved with her sister, Ana, also still resides on the estate taking care of “mom” and the family business.

As Holly seeks an ending to her book, she realizes everyone is harboring secrets and not just the Carmichaels. A crooked cop covering for the wealthy family. A creepy busker that sends Holly ominous warnings. A runaway teen found squatting in Holly’s cottage has a secret mission. And then there’s the “watcher.”

Old money and old scandals bring new lies and treachery. People go to extreme lengths to keep their secrets from surfacing . Holly wonders if she’ll be permanently silenced as she seeks justice and the real truth behind her sister’s death. And the “watcher” is always one step ahead of her!

If you’ve ever read any of Jamie Day’s other thrillers, you know Day can weave a tale of suspense like no other. Beach Thriller is no exception! It’s another taut tale guaranteed to keep you guessing and desperate to know the real story of what happened to Ana.

A copy of this book and cover photo were provided by St. Martin’s Press.