The Dark Tide
Josh LanyonRomantic suspense
Available from Loose Id
ISBN: 978-1-60737-490-9
December 2009
| Adrien is at home recuperating from heart surgery, when someone tries to break into his apartment. He calls 911 but is put on hold so he calls Jake his ex-lover to help him. Then a few days later a body is found in the building next door that Adrien is renovating, it turns out to be the body of a man who has been missing for fifty years. The police are not really interested in clearing up a fifty year-old murder, so Adrien hires Jake, now a private detective, to look into this for him. The investigation brings up questions that force them to look more closely at themselves and where they want to be, if they can stay alive long enough to get there.
I don’t say this often, but I loved this book! It is the end of the series and you should really read all of them to get the full effect of the book. The book reminds me of film noir, at times dark and other times poignant. It draws you into the lives of the characters and answers the questions that have been left open from the previous books to give you a deeper sense of who the characters are and why they have done the things they did. The author has a wonderful way with words that draw emotions and visualizations from the reader. I thought the metaphor he used, the dark tide, was beautiful and so appropriate for the title. The story moves so smoothly there are no awkward places and before you know it is over. I was impatient to get the end because he keeps you guessing until the end as to what was going to happen and what the characters are going to do, but at the same time I did not want it to end. I am sad that it is the end of the series and hope the author will maybe right a story somewhere down the line with our characters in it just to see how they faired with choices they made.
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Reviewer: Ana |
