The Drowning Sea: A Maggie d'Arcy Mystery

The bucolic setting, emphasis on family and leisurely pace make for a nice end run around traditional police procedurals. --The New York Times Book Review

In The Drowning Sea, Sarah Stewart Taylor returns to the critically acclaimed world of Maggie D'arcy with another atmospheric mystery so vivid readers 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.

Author: Sarah Stewart Taylor
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Published: 06/21/2022
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.37h x 6.14w x 1.18d
ISBN: 9781250826657


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 01/01/2022 pg. 3
Library Journal 04/01/2022 pg. 62
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2022
Publishers Weekly 04/18/2022
Booklist 05/01/2022 pg. 27
Shelf Awareness 06/24/2022

About the Author
Taylor, Sarah Stewart: - SARAH STEWART TAYLOR is the author of the Sweeney St. George series and the Maggie D'arcy series. Taylor grew up on Long Island in New York and was educated at Middlebury College in Vermont and Trinity College in Dublin. She lived in Dublin, Ireland in the mid-90s and she now lives with her family on a farm in Vermont where they raise sheep and grow blueberries.