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    Riptide
    Riptide
    Riptide
    Audiobook7 hours

    Riptide

    Written by Michaela Thompson

    Narrated by Vanessa Daniels

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    As intricate as a fisherman's net, Riptide fairly writhes with sinister delights-family secrets, family feuds, lost family fortunes, betrayals, puzzles, sunken treasure . . . and murder, of course. With a bit of illicit romance and treachery thrown in for seasoning, this rife atmosphere swirls around New York artist Isabel Anders, who's summoned home to tiny St. Elmo, Florida to deal with an emergency: the aunt who raised her has been brutally-and mysteriously-injured.

    Isabel arrives to find the family mansion in ruins, her aunt living in a trailer, and, dangerous as a cottonmouth, the lover she left at sixteen just where he used to be. Waiting for her. Except now he's got a grudge against her, a secret of his own, and some unsavory companions. Just when Isabel's aunt seems to be getting better (but before she's able to talk again) she dies just as mysteriously as she was injured. Suspecting murder, Isabel quickly ties her aunt's death to another.

    But to find the killer, she has to hack her way through a small-town jungle of intrigue and several generations of interrelated secrets, producing hours of pulse-pounding delight for the confirmed puzzle fan.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateApr 3, 2018
    ISBN9781977376220
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    • 4/5
      Several descriptions of this novel call it a "cozy". It is not. "Cozy" implies a certain light tone, and this novel is deeply solemn. While not quite grim, it is full of angst.It's a reasonably well-thought-out mystery that I found somewhat but not entirely predictable.Its weakest point, I think, is that none of the characters come across as likeable or even sympathetic, except maybe for Isabel's aunt's nurse, and one small child. Since we don't spend much time with either of them, that doesn't help much.I also did not care for the carefully anonymous chapters from the killer's point of view; I'm not even sure that they were necessary, and they did show the author explicitly withholding information. Mystery authors need to do that! but they should be more subtle about it, I think!By the way, the title has nothing whatsoever to do with the plot or characters. Why???This could have been a really enjoyable read, but the deadpan tone and the flat characters prevented that, despite a good plot.