Sugar Sands
by Deb Davies
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Pub Date Apr 23 2024 | Archive Date Feb 15 2024
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Description
Michigan’s sunset coast turns deadly when a group of vacationers encounter a dying author who sees the ghosts of children.
When Arnie refuses surgery for his bum knee, Laurel takes the family on a relaxing trip to the beautiful sunset coast on Lake Michigan to recuperate. Accompanying them are Arnie’s sixteen-year-old son, Sawyer, and things are made even better when their close friends Claire and Charles join them for a visit.
The area is known for sand dunes, white beaches, and swimming. An odd manifestation of bioluminescence—floating lights on the lake—creates an eerie prediction of things to come. One that Sawyer jokingly points out because anytime his parents and their friends get together, disaster strikes.
But this time it’s Sawyer’s girlfriend who proves to be the catalyst for trouble when she takes a job at Dune House as a live-in scribe for Maeve, a dying author who sees the ghosts of dead children. When Felicity mysteriously disappears, and then others follow, it’s apparent that Sawyer’s prediction has come true: trouble has come to Lake Michigan.
Following forensic botany clues, Arnie and the remaining group desperately search for the others and walk right into danger. Will Arnie find everyone in time? What mysteries does the Dune House hold? Find this out and more in Sugar Sands, Deb Davies’s latest Coast-to-Coast Michigan Mystery.
Rich in Michigan’s local flavor, beauty, and culture, Deb Davies brings that true “up north feeling” into her writing.
A Note From the Publisher
Advance Praise
“I really loved this book… The writing was so easy and flowed very well...” —LibraryThing Early Reviewers (on Northern Light)
“a fast-paced mystery…Davies deftly melds the rugged backwoods aspects of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula with the beauty and calm of its streams, contrasted with the glory and power of Tahquamenon Falls.” —Lansing City Pulse (on White Nights)
Marketing Plan
- Indie Next List & Library Reads Nomination
- National Review Coverage
- Extensive marketing to Booksellers, Librarians, and Book Influencers
- Digital ARCs on NetGalley & ARC Giveaway.
- Targeted Consumer Email Marketing
- Extensive Social Media Promotion
Key Selling Points:
- The Coast-to-Coast Michigan Mystery series features two middle-age couples who experience love and life while traveling in the state, while unintentionally becoming embroiled in mysteries along the way.
- Fans of Louise Penny’s Three Pines series featuring Chief Inspector Armand Gamache will find a new favorite author in Deb Davies.
- Readers will enjoy the local flavor, lush descriptions of the areas depicted in the series, as well as the eccentric characters.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781643973852 |
| PRICE | $25.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 210 |
Available on NetGalley
Featured Reviews
PETER G, Reviewer
Sugar Sands by Deb Davies is set on Michigan's sunset coast and is quite a page-turner. When Arnie, a retired police officer, decides to skip out on knee surgery, his wife Laurel decides a relaxing trip to Lake Michigan's Sunset Coast might do him good. Joining them are their teenage son, Sawyer, and their friends Claire and Charles. There’s an eerie bioluminescent phenomenon in the lake, giving everyone the creeps. Sawyer has a knack for joking about his family’s disasters whenever they hang out with friends, but this time, it's no joke as trouble brews when his girlfriend takes a job as the live-in scribe for Maeve, an elderly and dying author who speaks with dead children’s ghosts. It all becomes a race against time to find Sawyer’s girlfriend. ‘Sugar Sands’ a gripping, twisting, convoluted suspense/thriller that will keep you interested and entertained from start to finish.
