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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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As I’ve read in many other reviews, this isn’t really four books. The story could’ve been told in one or two books. Don’t get me wrong, I very much enjoyed this, enough to move on to the fifth book in the series!
These are fun. Each book reaches a logical concludion, so I just skip the cliff-hanger denouement. SO FAR McKenna has kept me interested.
loved this series and it was written in a way that kept me wondering who did it? It was very interesting and well done
Made my way through Low Tide (Book one) wasted time. Kept waiting for something, disappointing read. Would not start next book. No Recomendation.
This is food for thought about spiritual matters and human nature.
Just getting into this series but so far the stories are interesting, the setting in Appalachacola Fl. Is very vivid and the characters are being developed quite nicely. Perhaps I will give it another star once I finish the set.
After I read the first book in this series I got the set of books 1-4 and read 2-4 all together. They’re not very long. I really like the characters as they are realistic and likeable. I like not having explicit sex and violence. A story can be suspenseful without foul language and graphic violence.
Loved the main character and how the author incorporated the local flavor in the stories.
I got the set thinking there would be one complete novel after the other. Instead it felt as if I were reading one story after another in a continuing saga. The writing was good, but nothing was resolved completely before I got frustrated and quit reading (book? 3). If I wanted a continuing drama, I could find that on television.
The setting is great for anyone with an interest in The Keys. The writing has some levity. But, the story doesn’t flow as smoothly or realistically as some of the adventure reads from other authors that set their stories in the FL Keys. The series is worth reading. But,certainly not a must read series.
Fascinating story with fantastically real characters
Could have used a proofreader.
I read the 4 books in 2 nights. Couldn’t put it down. I have been to Florida twice and didn’t see anything like this. I would like to return again after reading these. Its about a cop and her boss boyfriend and assorted other characters. Murder, mystery, family, and places like the West coast of Florida, most people go to the east coast(Disney World etc.) Like me. Course I was always there when a hurricane wasn’t around, unlike this story. Looking for book 5 and 6 and 7 etc….
I liked the characters and the story line.
Fast moving, great local color, interesting characters… only falls short in the romance depart… this guy falls in and out of deeep love too fast and to often.
Found this series on bookbub and had to get the last of the series off kindle unlimited. These books were fascinating to read and kept me engaged throughout. Found the series so riveting I signed up for kindle unlimited to read the rest of the series. The characters are well developed and the editing was well done. Highly recommend these books and the whole series. This was a new author to me and so glad I discovered her.
I enjoyed finding this series and also a new author. I enjoyed the story line, and the characters . I will definitely read more from this author
I enjoyed the series. I like being able to finish the story.
I am normally a romance kind of gal but opted to read the first in this series because the setting is a place by family vacations. The characters and plot lines really pull you in. I have since downloaded and read the entire series and have recommended it to all of my friends!
We vacation every year near Port St. Joe so I enjoyed the places she mentions. Good read.