Read the first four books that launched this bestselling series.
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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If you love Apalachicola the way we do, you will enjoy this box set and wish for more.
Loved these books! Can’t wait for the next book.
Dawn Lee McKenna, The Forgotten Coast (Low Tide, Riptide, What Washes Up, Landfall)
Four books to dive into and forget the world around you!
Although these four books can also be read as stand-alone it is so much more captivating to follow the increasing suspense as the plot develops in this series.
At the same time the pace of the action is such that it still feels realistic rather than purely action focused.
Dawn Lee McKenna has created believable characters that become almost three dimensional in my mind – I particularly love Stoopid the rooster and Coco the dog with their hilarious antics.
The occasional humour in dialogues comes unexpected and made me laugh out loud – they are very witty, and very observant of nuances.
If you enjoy thrillers with a gradual increase of suspense without theatrics, if you want to lose yourself in books with characters and a plot that take you into their world; if you want to have a daily reading highlight then this book series is for you.
Loved the series.
In addition to being a page-turner and witty, the stories have a great setting.
I love this series. They are not stand alone novels. You get entwined in with the townspeople’s lives.
Well-written and edited. Romantic relationship without descriptive sex.
I loved the characters sketches, but my favorite was Stoopid. The story line was suspenseful, but quite realistic and heart pounding in The storm. Just a couple of things that I took issue with: no mention of the chickens ever laying eggs; kids and parents don’t call each other “dude”, “homes”, or “dawg”; and Boudreaux HAD held Maggie during their dance (i.e., not their first time). Nevertheless, a very good entertaining read.
One of the best mystery romance series I’ve read. I felt like I knew the characters and could envision their coastal town.
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Very good series. The story flowed through each book, and when I was finished, I wanted more. Highly recommended.
These books are great.
I read this series and really recommend it. The books had very complex interesting characters. The authors’ descriptions of characters and locations was amazing. The plot and story line were realistic and so interesting that this series was a page turner.
Very good read
Not stand alone books. An issue from #1 is not revealed until the end of #4.
Wonderful books. I have read most of this series. Like to save the last one until I can preorder the next but truly hate the wait!
I lost interest trying to get into this set.
Excellent writing!
I could not put these books down. Can’t wait to read the rest in this series.
Ending a little disappointing