The new Lena Ortiz thriller
A body on the salt line. A date circled in the tide tables. Eleven days.
When a beloved Key Biscayne councilman is found laid out at low water, detective Lena Ortiz has until the next circled tide to find out who reads the bay better than she does.
Hardcover · Ebook · Audiobook · 384 pages
“A storm surge of a novel.”
“Vance writes Miami water like nobody else.”
“Taut, brackish and impossible to put down.”
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The book
Miami’s bay keeps its own records.
Warren Hale was the most respected man on Key Biscayne. So why was he found barefoot on the rocks at Bear Cut, his shirt dry, his shoes neatly placed, with a page from a tide almanac folded in his pocket?
Detective Lena Ortiz grew up on these waters. She knows the channels, the mangroves and the old stilt houses out in the flats. But someone knows them better, and the next circled tide is eleven days away.
From chapter one
The water came in at 4:12 a.m., which was when the tide table said it would, and that was the first thing Lena Ortiz noticed about the body: it had been placed by someone who could read a tide table.
Keep readingWhat readers are saying
4.6 stars from 2,800 sample reader ratings.
“I read it in one sitting during a power outage and still can’t look at the bay the same way.”
“The best sense of place I’ve read in a thriller since I can remember. You can smell the low tide.”
“Lena Ortiz is the detective I didn’t know I needed. Sharp, tired, funny.”
About the author
A former crime reporter who still checks the tide before she writes.
Marisol Vance covered courts and crime for a South Florida newspaper for twelve years before writing her first novel, Mangrove Hours, which won [Award name] for best debut. She lives on Key Biscayne.
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