The Rising Tide

by Sam Lloyd Narrated by Charles Armstrong, Anna Wilson-Jones

Overview

In this “fiendishly clever novel” (Sunday Times), a woman's husband vanishes in a historic storm-and new troubles wash up in its wake.

In a small fishing village on the Devon coast, Lucy Locke has built a life that anyone would envy. She and her husband, Daniel, own successful businesses and live with their two children in a picturesque home overlooking the harbor. But everything changes one morning when, following a monumental storm, the family yacht is found empty-and Lucy's husband is nowhere in sight.

As the search for Daniel mounts, so does Lucy's sense of dread, raised to a fever pitch when another, more terrifying revelation pushes her storybook life to the brink of total destruction. Lucy is reluctantly forced to face a harsh truth: the sea gives life and just as quickly takes it away. And when the detective on the case uncovers suspicious details that Lucy had hoped would stay buried, she'll have to confront the nightmarish possibility that she created her own undoing.

Beautifully rendered with evocative, atmospheric prose, The Rising Tide is at once a pulse-pounding, inescapably suspenseful thriller and a poignant tale of the power of the natural world. Its characters and settings are sure to stay with listeners long after the sentence-and after their heart rates finally return to normal.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

"Beautifully written, incredibly evocative with a real sense of place and of the sea. Heart-stoppingly tense."— Catherine Cooper, bestselling author of The Chalet

"Absorbing and deftly written . . . Lloyd is a born storyteller."— The Herald

"Lloyd is terrific on atmosphere . . . and he excels at taking readers to very dark places."— Metro

"Fiendishly clever"— The Sunday Times

"Surprising twists"— Publishers Weekly

"Lloyd pulls out all the stops"— Kirkus

Kirkus Reviews

2021-12-15
A hard-pressed Englishwoman gets the worst possible news about her family—and then watches their situation get worse and worse.

Things have been tough lately for Daniel Locke. His Devon supply firm, Locke-Povey Marine, has had to lay off far too many of its employees since Nick Povey, Daniel’s old schoolmate and ex-partner, skimmed funds from it and then sold his 50% stake to a hated and much larger rival that will surely pull the plug. But that’s no reason for Daniel to take his boat, Lazy Susan, out to sea and then, after sending a mayday signal, abandon it, leaving it to sink. Reeling from the news of her husband’s presumed death, Lucy Locke, who owns the Drift Net, which doubles as a music venue and gallery for local artists, is stunned to learn that their children are also missing. Eighteen-year-old Billie has vanished from her college in Redlecker, and Daniel himself picked up 7-year-old Fin from his school with a cock-and-bull story about a forgotten dental appointment. As DI Abraham Rose, who’s convinced that he’s months away from dying of cancer, begins making inquiries among the tightknit maritime community of Skentel, Lucy hopes against hope that her husband and children are still alive. When searchers find Daniel, clad in an insulating wetsuit, near the spot from which he sent out his mayday signal, his return seems almost too good to be true. So why does he keep his distance from Lucy, simply raging, “This is a tragedy written entirely for your benefit,” at someone who may or may not be her? Lloyd pulls out all the stops, then pulls out some more, sacrificing plausibility and logic to his heroine’s steadily deepening emotional distress.

An overwrought nightmare for readers who think too much is just enough.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940177998725
Publisher:	Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Publication date:	06/07/2022
Edition description:	Unabridged

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