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Character-driven suspense rich on coastal atmosphere and dry humor. See why the Forgotten Coast Florida Suspense Series has garnered both critical praise and thousands of five-star reviews.
Book 1: Low Tide In the quaint coastal town of Apalachicola, sinister things are afoot, as sinister things tend to be.
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Book 1: Low Tide In the quaint coastal town of Apalachicola, sinister things are afoot, as sinister things tend to be.
Lt. Maggie Redmond is called to a crime scene on St. George Island, where she is met with the body of Gregory Boudreaux. The medical examiner calls it a suicide, but no one knows that Maggie has a horrible connection to the dead man.
When Gregory’s uncle, Bennett Boudreaux, the richest and scariest man in town, takes a sudden interest in Maggie, people start to wonder, Maggie included. Maggie knows he may suspect her of killing his nephew, but she finds herself slowly drawn to the man.
As Maggie fights to help a young girl escape the clutches of a volatile drug dealer who’d love to see Maggie dead, she also struggles to hide her dark link to a dead man, and her burgeoning relationship with her boss, Sheriff Wyatt Hamilton.
Unfortunately, secrets have a way of revealing themselves at low tide.
Book 2: Riptide Once again, sinister things are afoot in Apalachicola, FL, and one of them is an actual foot.
When a local fisherman finds a severed limb in his net, it sets off a chain of events that no one can anticipate
Lt. Maggie Redmond soon discovers that the foot belongs to the friend of another recently dead guy, Gregory Boudreaux, the man she never told anyone about. Gregory’s death was thought to be a suicide. That seems less likely, now that his best friend Sport’s foot has shown up out of the blue, as it were
When it starts looking like town villain Bennett Boudreaux might be responsible for eliminating Sport, things begin to get a little weird. Especially since Maggie’s started to take a liking to Bennett. She’s also taken a real liking to her boss, Sheriff Wyatt Hamilton, but her growing friendship to Bennett and her secret connection to the dead men threaten her and Wyatt’s relationship.
Is Bennett avenging Maggie for some reason, or does he have something altogether different on his mind?
Book 3: What Washes Up Karma’s alive and well in Apalachicola, Florida, and there are several people who are about to meet it face to face.
When more than a dozen bodies wash up on the beach of St. George Island, the residents of Apalach are outraged, and none more so than investigator Maggie Redmond and Sheriff Wyatt Hamilton. It’s time for the greedy to answer for the lives of innocents.
Meanwhile, a man is found tied to a burning boat in the middle of the bay, and Maggie’s instincts tell her Bennett Boudreaux is behind it.
If he is, Maggie has to decide whether she really wants him punished, or if justice has already been served.
Book 4: Landfall Two storms that nobody thought were coming just made landfall.
As a hurricane gathers its power just off Apalachicola’s shore, another storm comes to a head in Lt. Maggie Redmond’s home.
Held prisoner by a man bent on avenging the death of a son, Maggie must find a way to save herself and her two children. No one knows where they are. No one is coming to help.
Maggie and her children will have to find a way to survive both the madness inside their home and the madness raging outside.
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Great reading!
Impossible to put down. Highly recommended.
Excellent Author, read the entire series, loved them all. Read everything she has written.
Well plotted and paced, each story has its own complete arc but also (and obviously) ties in with a bigger series arc. It was a little like eating potato chips in that I finished one and started right in on the next. Told in the third person, most is from Maggie’s POV but other characters take over the narrative in different chapters, giving the reader a more complete picture of just how complex life in a small coastal town can be.
Although the main character is a lieutenant in the sherif’s department, the stories are more character driven than procedural. There are definitely crime scenes and bad guys and shootings and worse, but Maggie Redmond is driven by emotions, her love of family and her sense of justice. She is a kickass strong female character and I loved every minute of all four of these fast reads.
Dawn Lee McKenna is a treasure.
One of my favorite thriller series! You really need to check this author out and her books!
Great book.
Good series, will keep you looking forward to the next one
Didn’t want to put it down. Moved smoothly
Having been to St George island many times to vacation I wanted to read these books. Loved them and ended up reading rest of the series!
I would highly recommend to anyone who loves mysteries and realistic characters! Could not stop reading until I just had to fall asleep each night. Ended up buying the three additional books in the series and devoured those as well. My wife is now reading the first of the series.
These books are awesome! Wonderful series,well written, will draw you in and you won’t want to put them down. Sandra Brown ,Nora Roberts, Sue Grafton fans these are a must read. Read all the rest of series waiting on more.
I really enjoyed the whole series. The author has a great ear for dialogue
Excellent – it hooked me from the beginning. The characters were believable, the story kept me interested from book to book, things were resolved extremely well and they took their time getting to the answers in a realistic manner. I’m looking for the rest of her books now. Great job! Worth the read.
I am just finishing the third in the series. These books are well written with an easy style that draws you back each time you set it down. The dialogue between Maddie and Wyatt, is funny and believable. Heck, I even like the villain, he is so well described and portrayed. Great series.
Love this author. True talent to make the proverbial “bad guy” likable. She also knows how to build suspense in the course of ordinary events. Look forward to meeting these characters again in future books.
I had gotten Riptide, book 2 in the series and was waiting for book 1 to go on special when I came across this 4 book series. Wow…so glad I did. I read the whole series in 5 days. Book one, Lowtide, was a little slow in spots but I was hooked so I kept on reading. Book 2, Riptide, and Book 3, What Washes Up, rarely let up on the action. I found Book 4, Landfall, draggy in spots but the suspense was so compelling I of course was not giving up when I was that close to the end.
The only problem I have with this series is that you have to read all of them as they are cliffhangers. Landfall does wrap up the remaining questions from the other 3 books but there are still some things left un-revealed.
I will read more from this author but I will make sure there are no unanswered questions. I hate cliffhanger books unless I have the other one ready to read right away.
Liked the setting. Familiar territory
loved this set of books and was very glad to follow the story through the 4 books!
This author had me on page two – couldn’t put it down. McKenna writes in such a way that you don’t lose interest. I enjoyed the first four books and look forward to reading the next six.