High Tide: A Novel

A taut, sun-soaked noir about art, obsession, and the long shadows cast by a single summer that shimmers with tension and moral unease.

Summer, 1992. Peter, a promising young artist, vanishes off the coast of Tuscany. Ten days later, his body washes ashore, unrecognisable. For one sweltering summer, his death grips the public imagination, before slipping into the haze of nineties myth.

Thirty years on, Peter’s widow, Marie, has become infamous in her own right. A cult but reclusive horror wr...