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    Dark Tide: A Novel

    By Elizabeth Haynes

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    “Chilling.” — Associated Press

    “An intense psychological thriller."  — Publishers Weekly

    From Elizabeth Haynes, author of the bestselling debut Into the Darkest Corner, comes a tense, gripping thriller about a woman caught in an underworld of corruption and murder.

    Genevieve has finally achieved her dream: to leave the stress of London behind and start a new life aboard a houseboat in Kent. She’s found the perfect vessel: Revenge of the Tide. She already feels less lonely; as if the boat is looking after her.

    But the night of her boat-warming party, a body washes up, and to Genevieve’s horror, she recognizes the victim. She isn’t about to tell the police, though; hardly anyone knows about her past as a dancer at a private members’ club, The Barclay. The death can’t have anything to do with her. Or so she thinks...

    Soon, the lull of the waves against Revenge feels anything but soothing, as Genevieve begins to receive strange calls and can’t reach the one person who links the present danger with her history at the club. Fearing for her safety, Genevieve recalls the moment when it all started to go wrong: the night she saw her daytime boss in the crowd at The Barclay...

    Dark, sexy, and exquisitely chilling, Dark Tide is another superb mystery from acclaimed rising star Elizabeth Haynes.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMar 12, 2013
    ISBN9780062197344
    Author

    Elizabeth Haynes

    Elizabeth Haynes is a former police intelligence analyst, a civilian role that involves determining patterns in offending and criminal behavior. She is the New York Times bestselling author of Into the Darkest Corner, Dark Tide, Human Remains, and, most recently, Under a Silent Moon, the first installment of the Briarstone crime series.

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    • 5/5
      Genevieve has finally escaped the stressful demands of her sales job and achieved her dream: to leave London behind and start a new life aboard a houseboat in Kent. But on the night of her boat-warming party the dream is shattered when a a body washes up beside the boat, and she recognises the victim. As the santuary of the boatyard is threatened, and her life is increasingly at risk, the story of how Genevieve came to be so out of her depth unfolds, and she learns the real cost of mixing business with pleasure.My Thoughts:I really liked Elizabeth Haynes first novel ‘Into the Darkest Corner’ but loved this book. The book had plenty going on that had me turning the pages. It is totally different to her first novel which was a little intense. This book flowed and dare I say was verging on a romantic suspense. It wasn’t slushy like a lot of novels and I wouldn’t put it in the genre of a romantic suspense, but there was plenty of drama and a love interest thrown in.The book gripped me from the first page. The plot wasn’t mind blowing and I could see where it was leading but I didn’t quite guess how it was going to turn out, and I was left at the end wanting perhaps a few more pages.I would highly recommend both books by Elizabeth Haynes and will be looking out for more by her in the future.
    • 2/5
      I'm surprised by how disappointed I am with this. This felt and read more like a debut instead of the second novel by Elizabeth Haynes. Didn't like this one at all, which is a shame since I really enjoyed Into the Darkest Corner.

      Maybe if I read this one first, I would have felt differently.

      review to come
    • 4/5
      Genevieve has boat a houseboat and is refurbishing it while living on a river. She invites some old friends from London that she used to work with and her new friends she has met while living on the boat. The night of her housewarming party, a body washes up beside the boat. Someone from her past that she knows. As the novel progresses, you learn more about Gen's past and how it all collides with her present. I just started reading Elizabeth Haynes books and have really enjoyed them.
    • 4/5
      Genevieve is an ex-pole dancer, a very good one, at a London gentlemen's club. She also did lap dances and held private sessions in the VIP room. She was willing to prostitute herself if the money was right. All this to fulfill her special dream. Yet she will not open the secret package entrusted to her for months, even though she suspects it may hold an illegal weapon, or even drugs, because "that wouldn't be right." An interesting moral code. And she's in love with two guys and sleeping with both. But the romance falls flat and I much didn't care who she wound up with. This is Haynes follow-up to her debut, 5 star "in the Darkest Corner"; this is a satisfactory effort but no where near what Amazon USA dubbed 2011's "best book of the year". This one also has the back-and-forth between present and a short time earlier. Not a lot happens for much of the book, but there is always an uncomfortable tension throughout the story. The ending is rather messy, but fitting, and rings true. I was not crazy about any of the characters, unlike my attachment to "Corner's" Cathy/Catherine.
    • 2/5
      Whilst I found her first novel disturbing in parts - I felt this one was very formulaic - finished it in a day as the plot was guessable early on. Didn't see the fascination with her main love interest as the character wasn't detailed enough. Bit too 'romance with a bit of danger' for me.
    • 4/5
      The book was OK. I did find myself wanting to continue reading as quickly as I could to figure out the unknown package. A fairly satisfying read.
    • 4/5
      Um, hmm, well, not so much! Sorry about my mumblings but I'm not sure what to make of this book. Pole dancer/sales person Viva/Genevieve is a really irritating character and it's no wonder that she's pretty much friendless throughout the book. Lots of men find her attractive and she thinks she's smart even though Dylan's career is evident from the start! My favourite book by the author was into the Darkest Corner, it was fast paced and not particularly ridiculous. This was ridiculous! Readable but not as good as EH's debut.
    • 4/5
      I read Elizabeth Hayne's debut novel, Into the Darkest Corner, last summer and really enjoyed it. I was quite eager to sink my teeth into her next book - Dark Tide. Haynes returns with another suspenseful tale of a woman in peril.Genevieve is good at her sales job but it's going to be a long time before she saves enough money to pursue her dream - to buy a boat and live on it. So she decides to ramp things up and takes a job pole dancing at a private club in London. Just dancing, nothing extra.Cut to the second narrative. Dream achieved - Genevieve has done it - she is living on and fixing up a barge. The night after a boat warming party with some old friends from London and new friends from the marina she's docked at, a strange bumping against her hull awakens her. It's a body in the water - and she knows who it is. Through a dual set of narratives, we cut from present to past, all of it leading to the question - what happened in London? I really enjoyed this format and the eking out of information as the back story slowly filled in and the present day hurtled forward. Haynes kept me quickly turning pages with her foreshadowing.With Into the Darkest Corner, I became quite involved with Catherine, the lead character. In Dark Tide, I felt like more of an observer. Genevieve didn't garner quite the same emotional response from me. I found her to be self serving, shallow and I honestly questioned her decisions at times.All the elements are here for a good read - danger, romance and unanswered questions. And it was a good read for me. It just didn't grip me as much as her first book. Dark Tide was written as part of 2010's National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). Although the book has, of course, been edited since then, it still felt a bit formulaic and by the numbers. I'm not sure if North American readers will be familiar with a genre of tell all British women's magazines such as Chat. They focus on real people telling their usually shocking true stories in a first person narrative. This is what Genevieve's recounting reminded me of. I did enjoy the description of life on the boat and Genevieve's renovations - they sparked a daydream of a living on a houseboat! There were perhaps a few too many references to pole dancing techniques and moves.But all in all, Dark Tide was a great escapist read, easily devoured in a day. I do like this author and will be eagerly waiting to read the North American release of her third book, Human Remains.
    • 3/5
      Not good. Doesn't even come close to the author's debut novel. Skip this one.
    • 4/5
      Great book. Great thriller. I'm going to read her first novel as well.
    • 3/5
      I loved the first half of this book - for a while it was so hard to put down, I feared that I had derailed my life by picking it up - but gradually interest waned. It remained fun to read but the plot got more predictable, I never really liked the main character, and I got frustrated with the number of times that she made boneheaded decisions that put her in danger for the service of the plot. Curiously, for all the sex, the book was not very sensual. All in all, a fun read but nothing special.
    • 5/5
      Something very evocatively scary happens in the first pages of Elizabeth Haynes’ novel Dark Tide, setting the scene for a very dark story indeed. It’s a story told in multiple points of view, with converging timelines that move irrevocably to or from that very first scene. And nobody is quite what they seem.Details ring authentically true, from depictions of peaceful houseboat life to the shadows of London’s criminal underworld, from haunting mystery to haunted memory, and from sunshine to rain. Newly remodeled houseboat rooms hide as many secrets as a newly remodeled life. And a dark tide turns an over-the-top housewarming party into questions of accidental death.Elizabeth Haynes’ novel is filled with believably odd characters, none of them perfect, but with shining lights of goodness. Relationships can be shelter or escape. But behind it all is the question of who is truly good—or if true goodness can be found by someone so flawed. It’s a story that draws the reader into worlds they might not wish to visit, through the eyes of a flawed protagonist, and sends them, like a houseboat whose engine has never been tried, into dangerous waters. It’s a good story, seductive, sad, filled with questions, but overarchingly filled with that aching search for goodness, trust and truth.I really enjoyed this novel.Disclosure: I bought it on a deal when my basement was flooded – dark tides indeed.
    • 3/5
      I really enjoyed Into the Darkest Corner but I never felt the spark for Genevieve or the suspense that I was supposed to be getting here. Honestly, this didn't feel very suspenseful. Also, the flashback device annoyed me after a bit because it felt repetitive & I didn't particularly need Genevieve to tell me over & over why she danced at the club or how awesome her dancer skills are on that pole. Be a stripper, make that money & do your thing & I'll raise a manicured fist with you in sisterly solidarity but don't keep underlining it because now it comes off like you're trying to justify your choices. I didn't need Gen's justifications, all I really wanted to know was who killed Caddy. Seriously. I didn't even take long for me not to care about her relationship with Dylan. I did very much enjoy the parts that took place at the river with the other people who lived on their boats. I thought the descriptions of all that & Gen's boat, were the best part. In the end, this one was just okay but in no way will keep me from reading more from Elizabeth Haynes.
    • 2/5
      I am wondering why I read this one given that I didn't think much of Into The Darkest Corner, but it was at the library so...I didn't like this one either. It gave me a great big angry feminist WTF?! face. Not because of the pole dancing (and there's a lot of that but only because it's such great exercise, which I totally believe because it's only mentioned, oh gosh, every single time she gets on the fecking pole), or because of the whole "the thing I like about you is that you don't ask any questions," "You're asking questions, I liked you because you didn't do that," thing, but because ultimately everybody is a piece of meat to be dolled out to whoever. It's stupid and hokey and deeply angry making and I'd probably need to hear really good things to want to pick up anything else by this author.
    • 3/5
      Into The Darkest CornerByElizabeth HaynesMy " in a nutshell" summary...A houseboat and a floating body...yikes!My thoughts after reading this book...I truly love to read English mysteries. This one began with a party and a dead body. Main character Genevieve left her full time career in business and her part time career in pole dancing to buy and renovate a houseboat. Yep...I found that concept a bit implausible, too. In fact...I found the entire working at this "gentleman's club" and working " private" parties kind of unappealing. But...that's me.And her reason to do it is to buy her houseboat. When she has enough money she does what she says she is going to do and begins her new life. She has new friends and she appears to be happy until the night of her boat warming party when the body of her friend is found dead in the river by her houseboat. Of course she does not tell the police that she knows who it is. Nor does she mention that she is holding a mystery package that belongs to someone from her past.Then more scary and bad things happen. Which I won't disclose because it's a mystery...and kind of a lukewarm one for me. It was good...but not great. What I loved about this book...I think I loved Genevieve's idea about living on a houseboat. It seemed fun and romantic until all of the bad stuff happened.What I didn't love...I was turned off by the pole dancing thing...it just felt weird...somehow it wasn't plausible to me. And the entire " hide my secret package and don't call me until I call you" aspect of this story.Final thoughts...I found this to be a good but not great mystery. I wasn't caught up in it. I didn't feel for the characters...especially Genevieve.
    • 4/5
      This was good but not nearly as gripping as 'Into the Darkest Corner'.
    • 4/5
      It is rare for me to dislike a character as much as I did Genevieve, the central character of REVENGE OF THE TIDE. At first I was on Genevieve's side, sympathetic to her desire to escape the London rat race by buying a river barge in Kent. Where we came unstuck was when Genevieve revealed that, in her second job as a pole dancer in an exclusive men's club, she would do almost anything to raise money to buy a houseboat.The club where she is working has gangland and drug connections but Genevieve is really gullible when she thinks that she can escape.She leaves a trail which brings criminals into the boatyard community where her boat is moored. This also diminished my empathy with her.I tried to put those plot elements aside and I admired the way the author has skilfully woven two plot time lines together. So, for those who like to know if I enjoyed a book - well, no, I didn't enjoy this one although I did read it to the very end just to get the complete story.