On Folly Beach
Jul 1, 2010
On Folly Beach
Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: NAL Trade; 1 edition (May 4, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0451229215
ISBN-13: 978-0451229212
This is another one of Karen’s great stories involving mysteries of the past helping overcome tragedies of the present.
Emmy buys a book store in Folly Beach, South Carolina, to start her life over after her husband dies in Afghanistan. When she arrives at the book store, she finds that it comes equipped with not only employees who refuse to leave, but secrets from the 1940 war time era.
Lulu, a strange brooding old woman who is apparently part of the book store sale, seems to hint at a dark past involving the store and her older sister, Maggie, who refused to ever leave the island and died in a hurricane 20 years ago – waiting for her love from 1943 to come back to her.
The book hops back and forth between Emmy learning to live again, slowly, on her own, and the story of Maggie, Lulu and their cousin Catherine – who lived on Folly Beach during the war and were in constant fear of the German’s finding their way onto the beach from the rumors of subs they always heard about.
As Emmy finds more and more clues left behind by mysterious notes written in the margins of books hidden in the store from the 1940s, a secret starts to come out regarding Maggie, Cat, Lulu and Cat’s husband, Peter.
There’s quite a bit foreshadowing in the book and you can fairly easily figure out the mystery in the book, but it’s still an excellent read that keeps you interested and the ending definitely has an unexpected twist to how it all came to pass.
I enjoyed it and look forward to reading more from Karen White.
For an excerpt from Chapter 1, go HERE.
