Beach Reads and Deadly Deeds

By Allison Brennan

Book Overview

"The literary escape I didn't know I needed--a luxurious private resort, a steamy romance, and a captivating cast of sleuths and suspects . . . Allison Brennan has crafted the perfect summer read." --Elle Cosimano, New York Times bestselling author of the Finlay Donovan mysteries

Featured on Katie Couric Media's "10 Books to Read Once You've Finished Watching 'The White Lotus'"

In this sun-dappled mystery from New York Times bestselling author Allison Brennan, a risk-averse bibliophile gets in over her head when strange notes in a book draw her into a real-life investigation.

Mia Crawford is responsible to a fault. She has to be. Between her high-demand job and taking care of her grandmother and her cats, she has little time for anything else. What time she does have, she pours into reading. Mysteries, romances, thrillers...books filled with women who are far more impulsive than she would ever dream of being. Now, forced into taking a long-overdue vacation, she finds herself on a luxurious private island where she just might have a chance to reinvent herself--for a little while, anyway. She can explore the island. Flirt shamelessly with a cute bartender. Have a vacation fling. Live like a heroine in one of her favorite novels.

Or she can curl up with a good book on the beach. Turns out reinventing yourself is easier planned than done. But when gossipy notes written in the margins of an old book turn out to be clues to the disappearance of another guest, Mia finds herself diving headfirst into a dangerous adventure. With everyone at the resort hiding secrets of their own, she'll have to solve this real-life mystery before she becomes the next target.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0778387259
• ISBN13: 9780778387251
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Mira Books
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Beach Reads and Deadly Deeds, fabulous book!!

This book was so good I didn't want it to end!!

Fun beach read!

This was an entertaining summer audiobook to listen to! I can relate to Mia, with a carefully planned out future and only living the wild life vicariously through the many many romance, thriller, murder, mystery books that she has read. Which leaves her well prepared to solve a real life murder mystery, complete with puzzles in books that only an financial accountant can solve, while on her first vacation in a long while. I love Mia and Bree working together to work on it as well. Their friendship is fun and so is the one with the hot bartender who has both a wild side and a secret side with that may give Mia that real life romance that she reads about but has never experienced. The mystery bit is nicely twisty but not too overly complicated, as is right for a summer beach read. And of course you get the love drama on top with a ahhhh, sweet happy ending to finish it up with a cherry on top! The narrator does a wonderful job in bringing Mia and her unforgettable vacation to St. Clair to life and I had a lot of fun, laughs, gasps, and ahhh moments the whole time. A light summer beach read that checks all the boxes for a good time!