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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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I loved this series. I didn’t stop with just these 4 books. I had to read them all! I always feel a little sad when I finish a series! I get so caught up in the stories.
A favorite series. Loved it.
I enjoyed the first three books but thought the fourth had too much hurricane detail. All well written and entertaining.
Fun, easy to read, great characters. It’s a little clunky with the author feeling like she has to go back and retell what happened in the last book, every new book. I just skipped those parts, but it’s cumbersome. Light summer read.
I love McKenna’s books.
A favorite author. Love these books. 🙂 <3
Best series I have read in a long time.
I loved the first 4 books in the series. I just had to keep reading so I bought the other 6 books!
Usual situations reversed – female deputy in love with chief boss; different plot twists. The most interesting character is a semi-bad guy.
The characters are very realistic and very colorful in their own right. The story line just gets better and better with twists and turns at every corner. I’m on book 4 and I can’t believe what I’m reading. I’ve been enthralled from the first page to the middle of the 4th book. Few series will grab your attention like a magnet, this one surely is. GREAT READ!! Highly recommend! Great author!
Highly recommend for action and characters
I plan to read the rest in this series. She captures a part of Florida few know.
A good part of my enjoyment on this series is because I am somewhat familiar with the area. It is a fun read if more excitement in that area than usual. Good characters and writing. About the real Florida, what is left of it.
After reading this set, I bought the rest of the series. I love the characters!
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.