Just when you think all the clues have been laid out, another death is revealed or another layer to the organisation was discovered.

I really enjoyed the multiple threads of the investigation. As Dani Pettrey often does, this book is situated around a strong family-like work team. Finn and Noah, Gabby’s brother, are teammates, and their fellow CGIS unit are a tight-knit group. Once I got my head around who was who and how they fit together, The Killing Tide was an easy story to enjoy.Īside from Finn and Gabby, there are a lot of other main characters, some of which share in the chapter perspectives. Some sections are only a half a page long, before they jump to another thread of the story, another character’s perspective, and then switch again. The pace is very quick and the action, deaths, twists and investigation clues just keep coming. The writing jumps around a lot in The Killing Tide. Instead, the characters’ backstories are mostly filled in throughout the novel, while some are just alluded to, with more details perhaps to be revealed in the second book in the series. It felt like perhaps I had missed a prequel, like I should know these people and the people they know. It took me a little while to work my head around the plot and backstory. The Killing Tide plunges readers straight into the story and lives of the many characters. But when bodies begin to pile up, including one of their own, Gabby is drawn to the investigation, even if it means working alongside old flame and the man she left behind, Finn Walker. When investigative journalist, Gabby Rowley’s life is threatened by the drug lord she helped send to prison, her protective big brother, Noah, insists she return home with him to Wilmington, North Carolina, where he and his Coast Guard Investigative Service team can keep an eye on her. The Killing Tide follows in the way of Dani Pettrey’s previous titles with a strong mystery story, plenty of action and high-stakes suspense, and charming, faith-filled romance. But will they be able to see past their preconceptions long enough to track down an elusive killer, or will they become his next mark? My thoughts Thrown together by the heinous crime, Finn and Gabby can’t ignore the sparks or judgments flying between them. Now that she’s back, the tug on Finn’s heart is strong, but with the risks she’s taking for her next big story, he fears she might not live through it. When investigative reporter–and Finn’s boss’s sister–Gabby Rowley arrives, her unrelenting questions complicate an already volatile situation.

His only clues are what little evidence remains aboard the dead officer’s boat, and the direction the clues point to will test Finn and the Guard to their limits. When one Coast Guard officer is found dead and another goes missing, Coast Guard Investigative Service special agent Finn Walker faces his most dangerous crime yet.

The Killing Tide by Dani Pettrey