The Rising Tide: The heart-stopping and addictive thriller from the Richard and Judy author

Corr this is by far the best book I've read in over a decade! It keeps your heart racing right until the end and the ending bought me to tears. Superbly written and so very very dark. Amazing!

The Rising Tide is the second novel by British author, Sam Lloyd. As soon as she hears Daniel is missing, Lucy Locke wonders if it is intentional. After the appalling disloyalty of his business partner, Nick Povey, things aren’t going well at Locke-Povey Marine and she knows Daniel is worried that they will lose everything. He has taken their forty-year-old yacht, The Lazy Susan out on a morning when a monster storm is imminent. Is her beloved husband taking the most radical step he can to ensure his family’s survival? Does he think that insurance money will replace a husband and father? Lucy is grateful that seven-year-old Fin is at school and his eighteen-year-old half-sister Billie, at college, so she can deal with this without distraction. The reality, as it is gradually revealed, turns out to be much worse. The whole of Skentel mobilises, and the Drift Net, Lucy’s own café/gallery/live music venue becomes a hub for managing the search. The media are, of course, drawn to the tiny Devon fishing village for the drama; an ailing DI Abraham Rose arrives to ascertain exactly what has led to this potentially tragic incident, and if it can be mitigated; a case likely to be his last. The reasons for Daniel’s actions, as they are eventually disclosed, are shocking, chilling even. More cannot be said without spoilers. This is a cleverly constructed atmospheric thriller that keeps the reader guessing with every twist and turn of the plot. The main narrative is carried by Lucy, of whom the reader will begin to wonder quite how reliable, how honest, how selective the story she tells might be. Interspersed with this are occasional pieces from an anonymous voice whose sanity is quickly under question. An utterly superb, wonderfully atmospheric British thriller. This unbiased review is from a copy provided by Pigeonhole and Transworld Digital.

A highly recommend read. Brilliant and thrilling!!!