Death on the Beach (An Island Mystery Book 2) by Anna Johannsen,

I received an advance copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. You can get your copy here:

 

 Sometimes, I fail to realize that a book is part of a series when I initially request it. Unfortunately for me, this was the second in this series. I wasn’t totally lost, but I think that I definitely could have benefited from reading the prior book, unless that is the American in me. 

We begin this book with Lena catching a ferry to end up in Amrum to spend six whole days with Erck. Sleeping, going for walks, cooking and talking. After fourteen years, they have rekindled their relationship over the past eight weeks.  She has barely arrived at her destination and receives a work call and we learn that she is a Detective Inspector. Her boss informs her that there is a 14- year old girl that went missing on Fohr. Lena is quickly enlisted to run the search the next day, as the current officers searched and did not find her. Fohr is only an hour from where she is, so why not help out? It quickly is revealed that the girl’s parents belong to a free church, a deeply devout free church. We are then on the adventure of finding what exactly happened to Marie Logener when her sister reported her missing. That alone is something- not her mother, but her sister called it in!! Lena, as a woman who was once a teen manages to uncover some of Marie’s secrets that her mother never even could imagine. So much drama in this book! As a mother of a daughter, I cannot even imagine how awful all of this could be to someone.

It was definitely a mystery as to what occurred.