A storm is raging. That’s merely one of Detective Daniel Nash’s troubles, Charlie Hamilton, the resident drunk and proprietor of Camp High Tide has mysteriously perished. After combing through old files, he learns that thirty years ago a young boy went missing. His body never discovered. He requests an interview with the five campers who were interrogated during that time.The bodies of the … bodies of the suspects start piling up. Each death is similar and equally horrifying. Detective Nash must locate the suspects before the culprit has a chance to finish them off.
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4 stars
Timothy Waters was killed by his co-campers at Camp High Tide in 1988. He swore with his dying breath that he would come back.
Thirty years later, in 1918, Detective Daniel Nash picks up a case of a mysterious accident (?) at the old abandoned camp. He goes out with his partner new Detective Simmons to view the body and the scene. The pathologist Dr. Sara Jefferson has some very interesting observations. The dead man is later identified as Charlie Hamilton, once the director of Camp High Tide.
Soon, the team of Timmy’s tormenters begins to die – all from drowning. Before they die, they see Timmy, standing in the driving rain, or actually touching them; holding them down so they drown. (Great stuff!)
This book is well written. It was a very short and, dare I say, fun book. Events followed along in a linear progression. One event followed another. I liked Detective Nash and Simmons, his partner, had a valuable place as well. Of course, the book being so short there was not a lot of background information given about these two people, but I don’t think that it was a particular drawback. I enjoyed the story and look forward to reading more of E.C. fisher’s novels in the future.
I want to thank NetGalley and BooksGoSocial for forwarding to me a copy of this good book for me to read, enjoy and review.
Well, well, well…We meet again Fisher and this time you have blown my mind. Truly your best work to date.
I’m not going to lie, I was really wary about this one. Why, because I don’t really do horror but, then I had to put that against Fisher’s previous works and he has yet to let me down. I was surprised at the careful balance between horror, supernaturalism, and suspense.
While only 73 pages long, after completing it felt as if I just read a novel of 400 pages. So much was given in this short that I was really stunned at how quickly I became tormented by the secret in which Camp Hide Tide thought they had left in the far in the past.
The most simplistic way to put this is I know what you did last summer (1997) meets Friday the 13th (1980), that’s the most simplistic way to compare this novel.
The character depictions of both young and old were truly remarkable, while we didn’t get to witness the transformation to adulthood, the depiction of them was easily crafted into one’s mine to fill in the blanks. It was a unique twist to meet them as adolescents and still be able to see the paths in which life had taken them.
The terror that is felt upon our player relays as well as any moving film. The bewilderment that you follow as Detective Nash dwells deeper and deeper into this case allows you to pieces together as if you are part of the police force. But don’t let that fool you, once you think you’ve solved the case BAM….Fisher throws twist after twist after twist.
My only downfall is that as soon as I started it I had ended.