The Beachcombers by Stephanie Queen is an interesting thriller. The storyline is a bit convoluted but interesting. The characters vary in their complexity with the two lead characters being very complex; sometimes so complex it’s hard to understand their actions. Both take hard and stoic to an extreme. There are quite a few secondary characters but most are rather flat. It will be interesting to see if their characters are flushed out more as the Beachcomber Investigations series is released.

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This was a lukewarm mystery and a disappointing romance. Shane is an undercover cop who poses as a surfer girl at a competition. She's paired up with Dane who is wary of her resemblence to a previous girlfriend. They have to act as a fake couple to catch a French con man. I could not get into the story. Dane was condescending and it irked me that he kept calling Shane "girly". Just not my type of romance.

I found this story to be so confusing and then predictable. Not engaging at all for me and I did not finish it