![]() There, she encounters the imperious Josephine Bettendorf Warrick, lady of the estate. Brooke Trappnell, a struggling lawyer and a single mom with a 3-year-old, is abruptly summoned out to Shellhaven, the legendary estate out on the (fictional) Georgia Sea Island of Talisa. (Can someone say "Ya-Ya!)Ĭut to the present. The threesome, we shortly learn, are the membership of the High Tide Club - old school friends who make a custom of skinny-dipping by the light of the full moon, preferably on Mermaid Beach. ![]() Things start up in 1941 when we see three teenage women and their younger black friend burying a body - a man's body - in an oyster mound, just before sunrise. Plus, a legal conundrum straight out of John Grisham. It's all here, folks: Small, quaint Southern beach town. Mary Kay Andrews' latest novel, "The High Tide Club," pulls almost the same trick for the Summer Beach Read. (The last verse, credited to Steve Goodman, started off, "Well, I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison. ![]() In his 1975 song "You Never Even Called Me By My Name," David Allan Coe tried to pack in every single country-Western meme, from Mama to pickup trucks to drinkin' and prison. ![]()
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