Wrecked

Regan & Jack Reilly are spending their first anniversary on Cape Cod. A storm is brewing. The handyman Skip discovers that Adele Hopkins, the reclusive occupant of the home next door, has fallen on the steps leading to the beach while apparently trying to reach her boat and has facial bleeding. He

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thinks she could be dead, but by the time he gets Jack and Reilly to help, her body is gone, apparently washed out to sea by the rapidly rising waters. Jack & Regan attempt to learn more about the woman in an effort to reach her next of kin. Most of the action takes place on a single day with only a few chapters for the following two days. This was a light and enjoyable read. When I first began reading it, I felt that I'd read that particular scenario in a mystery in the past, but I never could quite place the author or story from which I felt it had been derived. I do believe that the final story ended up taking a different turn than the one I felt it had read in the past. The story line just seemed so familiar for it to be a book that had just been published for the first time.

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