Book of the Week

What do you like in a beach book? Family drama, a mystery, a beach house on Martha’s Vineyard, a trip to the Irish coast, and a little romance thrown in?

The Silver Boat by Luanne Rice offers it all; you can practically smell the salt air! A family nearly unravels as three sisters gather at the family beach house after their mother’s death.

Questions surrounding their father’s desertion of the family decades earlier re-surface in a sheaf of hidden letters, leading the sisters across the ocean to Ireland for answers. Each sister wrestles with memories, emotions and how to shape her future.

This is a relaxing read that leaves enough open-ended story lines for a sequel.