SUNSET IN ST. TROPEZ by Danielle Steel

Three couples. long time friends meet for their annual New Years Eve get together.  Eric and Diana, Robert and Anne and Pascale and John.  They try to meet up at least once a month and have taken several vacations together.  They decide they need another trip for the end of the summer.  They decide to spend August in St. Tropez and locate a realtor who finds them a lovely home to rent.  Then tragedy happens, Anne dies of a heart attack.  Robert is not sure he wants to go without her.  Eric has an affair and he and Diana may not survive.
What will happen?  Will they all survive?

AMAZON - Sunset in St. Tropez

SANDY SAYS 3/3 STARS

SUMMERLAND by Elin Hilderbrand

Have you ever wanted to go back in time to high school? This story will transport you back. It does read by people instead of chapters i.e. Jake or Hobby. This is a story about a group of people that live on Nantucket. These are people that live there year round. You have Zoe Alistair and her twins Penny and Hobby who are 17. Then there is Jordan and Ava Randolph and their 17 year old son Jake. As well as Al and Lynne Castle their older two sons are away at college and Demeter is their 17 year old daughter. These are the main families of this story. The kids met the first day of preschool. Jake loved Penny ever since. Now they are all Juniors in high school, Penny has an amazing singing voice, Hobby is a star athlete, Jake starred alongside Penny in the school musicals and Demeter was around but not really part of any group. On the day of graduation for the senior class most of the families and kids made the rounds to different graduation parties. The gang included after all next year they would be graduating. After hitting up some parties they end up at a party on the beach. There is drinking but Penny never drinks. Before leaving Demeter and Penny head up into the dunes and when they return Penny is in a state. She demands to drive and ends up crashing the car. Penny dies, Hobby is in a coma with multiple broken bones, Jake and Demeter are pretty much not hurt. The police discover a bottle of alcohol in Demeter's purse. What is going to happen? Jakes mother has been asking to return to her native Australia, Demeter continues drinking and everyone still wonders what set Penny off.



AMAZON - Summerland



SANDY SAYS 3/3 STARS

I HEARD THAT SONG BEFORE by Mary Higgins Clark

A good suspense story.

Six year old Kay goes with her father to the Carrington estate, where he was their landscaper.  He needed to check on the lighting before their dinner party that night.  She takes advantage of her fathers permission to use the restroom, to explore the mansion.  She had heard there was a chapel and she wants to see it.  While there she overheard a couple arguing, after she hid when she heard them coming in.   Years later she goes to Peter Carrington to ask permission to hold a fundraiser at the mansion.  Kay had been raised by her grandmother, after her daughter passed away when Kay was 2 weeks old; then a couple weeks after the above adventure her father was presumed to have committed suicide.  His body had never been found.  Kay's grandmother is not happy when Kay and Peter have a whirlwind courtship and marry.  Peter has been a person of interest in a death that happened the night of the party 22 years ago.  What will happen?  Did Peter kill Susan along with others?

AMAZON - I heard That Song Before

SANDY SAYS 3/3 STARS