That plan is swept away when Lucia discovers the body of a dead girl on the shore. She's an unknown -- no one identifies her, no one knows her, but somehow she ended up dead. Obsessed with not one but two close encounters with death, Lucia starts to sleuth around. The uber rich kid Tristan seems suspicious. When Lucia finds clues that the girl had been on Tristan's yacht on the night she died, Lucia knows that Tristan is covering up a secret. Could he have murdered the girl?
The police have lost interest and everyone tries to encourage Lucia to forget about the whole thing. Everyone, that is, except for three mysterious beautiful girls that Lucia has befriended. They seem to have a way with men and a kleptomania habit that somehow falls below everyone else's radars. Who are they? And why do they want to help Lucia find out who killed the girl?
A lovely amalgam of beach romance, murder mystery, and a little dash of fantasy. And, of course, a killer reveal of the killer themself. You'll guess some of the plot twists that come along, but the final one is a total surprise and well worth waiting for. Many individual parts of the story were weak (Lucia's traumatic backstory is underdeveloped and underutilized, sparring with Tristan and his girlfriend is surprisingly unrewarding, and so on). It's a long story but thinly told, and editing the story to raise the pace and the tension would have made for a better read. But nonetheless I enjoyed this story of summer beach fun with corpses!
