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New York Times bestselling author and Queen of the Beach Reads Mary Kay Andrews delivers her next blockbuster, Hello Summer. It’s a new season... Conley Hawkins left her family’s small town newspaper, The Silver Bay Beacon, in the rearview mirror years ago. Now a star reporter for a big-city paper, Conley is exactly where she wants to be and is about to take a fancy new position in Washington, D.C. Or so she thinks. For small town scandals... When the new job goes up in smoke, Conley finds herself right back where she started, working for her sister, who is trying to keep The Silver Bay Beacon afloat—and she doesn’t exactly have warm feelings for Conley. Soon she is given the unenviable task of overseeing the local gossip column, “Hello, Summer.” And big-time secrets. Then Conley witnesses an accident that ends in the death of a local congressman—a beloved war hero with a shady past. The more she digs into the story, the more dangerous it gets. As an old heartbreaker causes trouble and a new flame ignites, it soon looks like their sleepy beach town is the most scandalous hotspot of the summer.
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I went into this thinking it was going to be a romance/beach read but it ended up being more of a mystery/suspense story with a romance peppered in. To be honest, the romance was the weakest part of the story. Overall, the mystery was interesting but the book is more what I'd call an “airplane read” than a beach read. The kind of book I'd pick up on a kiosk at the airport, read on the plane and then leave in the seatback pocket for the next person who needed to kill three hours on a cross country flight. Enjoyable but forgettable.