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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 … reviews.
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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Like them all. Plan to read more from this author.
Loved these books – will be reading books 5-7 too. Great characters I really care about.
Waiting for the next book……
Liked the main characters and the development of their relationships. Great series.
I read this 4-book set pretty quickly and then 5-7 of the series. The set was my first experience with Dawn Lee McKenna and I was hooked on the Forgotten Coast series. I would laugh at the rooster’s antics and the get all teary-eyed in the sad parts. Thoroughly enjoyed this author.
Really enjoyed these books. Since I live in the area it was very realistic and entertaining to me.
I thoroughly enjoyed the whole Forgotten Coast series by Dawn Lee McKenna. Her fresh, witty writing style kept me coming back for more. Once I finished the first four books, I headed to Amazon to obtain the next 3 books.
Kept me interested and turning pages. Enjoyed it!
Outstanding storyline throughout the series .. can’t wait for the next one !
I enjoyed the characters in this series so much that I ordered and read books #5,6 and 7. I am looking forward to more books in this series.
Good stories
I can say that I enjoyed reading books 1 thru 4. The Apalachicola area, as a character, is very well presented; this is an area that I did not know anything about, but now would love to visit. So kudos to Ms. McKenna for her efforts to spread the word about her part of the world. The characters, and the interplay between them, was, on the whole, pleasing. The storyline occasionally felt a bit contrived, but in general, seemed both plausible and interesting. The body count, especially within the compressed timeframe of the first four books, certainly takes these stories out of the “cozy mystery” category. (Admittedly, this can be said about any mystery series – I’m guessing publishers frown on “nothing bad happened this week” manuscripts!) I am a long-time fan of the Florida School of Mystery Writers, and the Forgotten Coast books deserve a place on that roster.
A bit odd that a “native” from the area thinks that the Bucs are a baseball team. That detail wouldn’t take much research.
Enjoyed storyline & characters.
I have read 6 books in this series. While they are entertaining, all could have been done in no more than two volumes, eliminating most of the back story repetition required in the six separate books.
Interesting characters in this series of books. I could read more!
I very much enjoyed this series but would have hated it had I not bought all of the books together. You really would not want to read one in the series without immediately starting on the next as you were left hanging. I enjoyed the setting of Apalachicola and St. George Island. The characters were interesting and well developed. Just don’t sell the books individually!
I love a good murder. Especially when you don’t see them coming and the author doesn’t telegraph the killer. Stayed up late several nights reading these excellent books.
Love this new author. Hope that she keeps the series going.
A good read.