The Drowning Sea, Sarah Stewart Taylor
The Drowning Sea, Sarah Stewart Taylor
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The Drowning Sea
A Maggie D'arcy Mystery

Author: Sarah Stewart Taylor

Narrator: Aoife McMahon

Unabridged: 9 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/21/2022


Synopsis

In The Drowning Sea, Sarah Stewart Taylor returns to the critically acclaimed world of Maggie D’arcy with another atmospheric mystery so vivid listeners will smell the salt in the air and hear the wind on the cliffs.

For the first time in her adult life, former Long Island homicide detective Maggie D’arcy is unemployed. 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. The plan is to prepare Lilly for a move to Ireland. But their calm vacation takes a dangerous turn when human remains wash up below the steep cliffs of Ross Head.

When construction worker Lukas Adamik disappeared months ago, everyone assumed he had gone home to Poland. 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. 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. Something deadly. 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.

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.

A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur Books

About Sarah Stewart Taylor

SARAH STEWART TAYLOR is the author of the Sweeney St. George series, set in New England, the Maggie D’arcy mysteries, set in Ireland and on Long Island, and Agony Hill, the first in a new series set in rural Vermont in the 1960s. Sarah has been nominated for an Agatha Award and for the Dashiell Hammett Prize and her mysteries have appeared on numerous Best of the Year lists. A former journalist and teacher, she writes and lives with her family on a farm in Vermont where they raise sheep and grow blueberries.

About Aoife McMahon

Aoife Mcmahon is a narrator for audiobooks including Beautiful World, Where Are You and The Crooked Branch.


Reviews

Goodreads review by PamG on May 17, 2022

Sarah Stewart Taylor balances a police procedural with sleuthing by a former homicide detective and with family drama in The Drowning Sea, the third book in her Maggie D’arcy series. Maggie is currently unemployed and on vacation in the village of Rosscliffe on a remote West Cork peninsula in Ir......more

Goodreads review by Chelsea | thrillerbookbabe on May 11, 2022

This is the third book in the Maggie D'arcy series and the third one I've read. Thank you to Sarah Stewart Taylor and Minotaur Books for another chance to read one of her books. This one again centers around homicide detective Maggie, and her calm vacation by the sea. Her vacation quickly gets more......more

Goodreads review by Bam cooks the books on June 30, 2022

In this third outing in the series, Maggie D'Arcy and her daughter Lilly have come to Ireland to spend the summer with Conor and Adrien, to decide whether to permanently move there. They've rented a cottage in West Cork on the coast and look forward to some peace and quiet. But a young man's body ha......more

Goodreads review by Diana on June 21, 2022

This book took me a bit to get into it. A summer vacation brought ex-detective Maggie Ireland and of course a body being discovered in the water reeled her back in to solve the mystery. I liked this book once it really got going, so over halfway in. There were so many characteristics to sort out, I w......more

Goodreads review by Edwin on March 29, 2022

I enjoyed this novel set in Ireland's Cork county enough that I booked a trip to Ireland to break out of my Covid funk. Stewart weaves an engaging story that's part mystery while centering the story around the Maggie D'arcy's domestic life as she struggles over whether to relocate to Dublin. The pro......more