Book Review - Dead Tide

Dead Tide
by Jeannine Kadow
New American Library, July 2002
341 pages, $23.95
ISBN: 0451206320
Lacie Wagner series #2

Lacie Wagner, having survived the horrors in Burnout, is now recovering from her past, both emotionally and physically, on the island of Nantucket. Her daughter is now safely in boarding school and Lacie is gearing up to go back to work as TV anchor. Then she discovers the body of a woman diver washed up on the beach. Who was this woman? Why did she have radiation burns on her body? What was she doing in the ocean? Aided by the island's doctor, Tom Wheeler, and hindered by Assistant District Attorney Hinks, Lacie begins investigating the unidentified young woman's death.

At the same time, Lacie's love life suddenly takes a dramatic turn when she meets her next door neighbor, Justin Vale, the former owner of a software company. Lacie gives in to the man's animal magnetism but the affair is interrupted by a call from an anonymous person with information on the diver’s death. She leaves the island to meet with the informant and gets information about a new military organization--an organization so top secret that not even the President or Congress have any inkling of its existence.

Meanwhile, Wheeler finds evidence that it was no accident that led Lacie to the body in the first place. Someone wanted her to find the dead woman. Lacie continues tracing back information and is able to give the dead woman a name and identity. Suddenly the military yanks the case from Hinks' jurisdiction and everyone is shut out from the case. Justin Vale disappears without a trace. Lacie is getting strange phone calls. And someone is getting away with murder.

Lacie goes to Nick St. James, a private investigator who takes on cases that no one else wants. St. James is a former Navy swimmer, parachute rescue jumper, SEAL, and US Marshall--a man as dangerous as the people he hunts. St. James agrees to take the case.

The killer delivers a message to Lacie that sends her and St. James to find another body--a body that seems to be a mass of medical contradictions. And the killer has made it clear that he wants Lacie to report the deaths and if she doesn't do it his way, she will suffer for it. He has killed before and he will keep on killing for the pleasure of it.

Dead Tide is a suspenseful and intense tale that keeps your attention. Though the killer is known from the beginning, the suspense builds as Lacie and St. James race against a killer and try to figure out why, where, and how the killer is killing.

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