Best Crime thriller and top 20 finisher in the Top 50 Best Indie Book of 2017 Awards.5th place winner in Best Mystery Novel category, The Preditors & Editors Readers Poll Awards 2017 DEATH ARRIVES ON THE MORNING TIDE.The aging cargo liner Alexandra Rose steams into the Mersey Estuary, enveloped in thick fog that delays her entry into the port of Liverpool. When one of the ship’s passengers is … into the Mersey Estuary, enveloped in thick fog that delays her entry into the port of Liverpool. When one of the ship’s passengers is found dead in his cabin, a chain of events is set in motion that leads to one of Detective Inspector Andy Ross’s most baffling and complicated cases to date.
The first death is soon followed by another, and Ross discovers that his case has its roots in the depths of the Amazonian Rainforest in Brazil. A billionaire entrepreneur, passengers who may not be exactly who or what they say they are, a team of medical researchers and a team of vicious mercenaries combine to confound and complicate what begins as a simple death aboard a nondescript and insignificant ship.
Ross and his team from the Merseyside Police Specialist Murder Investigation team need all their skills in order to solve the case of the ‘Mersey Mariner.’
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It was a good read, but one I had to take slowly. Lots of action.
Procedural mystery, needed some additional proof reading.
an excellent murder mystrey tyhat highlights the mad things money has people do
Took a while to get going but a good read.
A tough read as the English was foreign to a American English speaker.
I enjoyed the enigmatic story and all the twists. Kept me guessing. Very well written with believable characters.
Too sluggish
the book was an easy read, at times it was a bit “boys own” and a bit daring do. the book was fairly predictable but I would recommend it and will probably read more in the series.
The writing style is so bad that sometimes it’s almost painful to read the dialog. Yet the whole mystery will keep one reading to the end! The language used between the persons involved in this mystery sounds like something a computer would create, and that makes me wonder?
Great book! Wonderful mystery! Would recommend to anyone who likes mystery thrillers.
I really wanted to like this book. Good setting, interesting plot (which spun out of control). But it is incredibly wordy. The dialogue is artificial and loong. Nobody talks like this, especially my British friends. I probably skimmed half of the book. I finished it, but I can’t really recomend it.
Way too many characters and way too much detail about everything little thing. I still read the entire book.
Well-written with well-developed plot. The characterizations are somewhat problematic, but the book is worth reading and is entertaining.
This book is laborious to read. Nothing interesting about it
I found the story line to be excellent. However, the writing was a bit off. It was as if the publisher told the author “we need more pages” so she put in totally redundant writing. One instance: the main character is moody so his wife wants to know the problem. He explains the entire case to her (which he’s been doing throughout the book), they have sex, and he feels better. Next page, his female assistant is moody and her husband wants to know the problem. She explains the entire case to him (which she’s been doing throughout the book), they have sex, and she feels better. REALLY???
Despite the above, the book was good and I would recommend it.
An enjoyable British mystery although the first chapter is slow. British slang could have been changed for sale in the U.S. — or better yet have a lexicon in the back.
This was a good story that seriously needed editing.
I found the writing amateurish. It was written in third-person omniscient, which means there was a lot of random head-hopping, sometimes within the same paragraph. This makes it hard to engage with any of the characters
Another example: the characters never just said anything. They declaimed or opined or just about any speech tag you can think of except said. After a while, it got annoying.
The characters spent too much time telling each other things they already knew. The only reason for this, from what I can see, was because the author wanted to give a bunch of background information to the reader without appearing to do an info dump. Unfortunately, it still felt like an info dump.
I persevered with this book because the basic puzzle was interesting, but I didn’t finish it. I stopped when someone was authoritatively explaining that organic molecules were those appearing in nature, as opposed to those made in a laboratory. This was why, it was said, dogs can’t smell the latter. This is just plain wrong. If you as an author are going to have a character explain something, you ought to find out what the facts are first.
Kept me reading to see what happened next. Not earthshaking literature, but not a formula you’ve seen a million times before.
very convoluted and choppy.