The bucolic setting, emphasis on family and leisurely pace make for a nice end run around traditional police procedurals.
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..
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.
Something deadly.
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.
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.
When construction worker Lukas Adamik disappeared months ago, everyone assumed he had gone home to Poland.
But their calm vacation takes a dangerous turn when human remains wash up below the steep cliffs of Ross Head.
The plan is to prepare Lilly for a move to Ireland.
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.
For the first time in her adult life, former Long Island homicide detective Maggie D\'arcy is unemployed. -- The New York Times Book Review 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.
The bucolic setting, emphasis on family and leisurely pace make for a nice end run around traditional police procedurals
