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Dan Connor mystery #2
Black Tide Rising
A woman is missing on Nootka Island—a densely wooded and remote region on the Pacific Northwest coast—and retired cop Dan Connor is pulled into the search to find her.
At first, a large pool of blood and a vandalized totem pole are the only clues Dan has to go on. When he unexpectedly spies Walker paddling up to shore, Dan learns that his Native friend has ties to this small community, and recruits him to help.
Walker’s tracking skills point the search in the right direction, but when a boy’s lifeless body is found, Dan and Walker realize that something more menacing is afoot. The two men, each from very different cultures, combine their skills and resources to launch a manhunt for a kidnapper and a killer.
An enthralling and suspenseful thriller, Black Tide Rising will have you obsessively turning pages until its exhilarating conclusion.
At first, a large pool of blood and a vandalized totem pole are the only clues Dan has to go on. When he unexpectedly spies Walker paddling up to shore, Dan learns that his Native friend has ties to this small community, and recruits him to help.
Walker’s tracking skills point the search in the right direction, but when a boy’s lifeless body is found, Dan and Walker realize that something more menacing is afoot. The two men, each from very different cultures, combine their skills and resources to launch a manhunt for a kidnapper and a killer.
An enthralling and suspenseful thriller, Black Tide Rising will have you obsessively turning pages until its exhilarating conclusion.
- GenresMystery
240 pages, Paperback
First published April 7, 2015
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July 20, 2024
I really enjoy this series!
It is a perfect blend of rugged west coast living, mystery & working together with the community to resolve issues.
Dan is no longer an RCMP officer until he goes to Nootka Island & gets involved with a murder & a disappearance. He is asked to help so the officials reinstate him. He & Walker, a person that he has known from the past with First Nation ties, follow the clues to solve the crime.
A great read!
It is a perfect blend of rugged west coast living, mystery & working together with the community to resolve issues.
Dan is no longer an RCMP officer until he goes to Nootka Island & gets involved with a murder & a disappearance. He is asked to help so the officials reinstate him. He & Walker, a person that he has known from the past with First Nation ties, follow the clues to solve the crime.
A great read!
December 23, 2015
I won this novel in a goodreads drawing.
This is a tough guy novel set in west coast of Canada. It's set up much like one of the Spenser rip offs so prevalent in today's fiction. There's the tough protagonist, his straight talking sidekick, and some criminals that need stomping. However, instead of talking about liquor and cigars, cracking jokes, and spouting off about the nature of courage, we get something completely different.
The sidekick is a Native American (well, Canadian) with a permanent injury. There are almost no jokes. Regular people do a lot of the work. Violence is barely used except by the criminals. There's a certain amount of native mysticism, something I usually don't mind, but in this case, I think it undermines the climax.
Maybe because the author is Canadian, and a woman, this novel really confounds expectations. It's isn't a bad novel, but nothing like I thought was coming.
This is a tough guy novel set in west coast of Canada. It's set up much like one of the Spenser rip offs so prevalent in today's fiction. There's the tough protagonist, his straight talking sidekick, and some criminals that need stomping. However, instead of talking about liquor and cigars, cracking jokes, and spouting off about the nature of courage, we get something completely different.
The sidekick is a Native American (well, Canadian) with a permanent injury. There are almost no jokes. Regular people do a lot of the work. Violence is barely used except by the criminals. There's a certain amount of native mysticism, something I usually don't mind, but in this case, I think it undermines the climax.
Maybe because the author is Canadian, and a woman, this novel really confounds expectations. It's isn't a bad novel, but nothing like I thought was coming.
February 4, 2018
I thought that the book was well written. My problem with it was that you could tell who the bad guy was right away. I wanted a little bit more mystery. I really like the world that she builds and her description of Indian traditions was really interesting. Since it is a mystery I have to give this a 3 star rating just because the mystery element was not really present and Dan did not do much police work. But the setting and Indian lore was what made this worth reading.
March 18, 2025
I bought that book in my last trip in Victoria and it was quite fitting to read. It's not much a really big thriller as it's easily understood in the beginning who did what and all, but still nice to follow the characters through their journey around the islands. Nice read overall
August 2, 2015
Certainly captures the west coast-and rugged remote west coast of Vancouver Island-experience, as well as the inter connectedness of the First Nations people to this land. Great mystery, with Dan Connor heading his boat up the outer coast to join up later in the week with his new female friend Claire, a marine researcher,
whom he met in the first book of this series. As he stops at a lighthouse, he ends up to his surprise being reinstated into the RCMP by his friend and former boss, after the discovery of the murder of a young aboriginal boy, and the abduction of the assistant light house keeper's wife. Investigative resources in the area are scarce, and links are quicly discovered to some high-end jewel thieves from Victoria. His friend Walker, also introduced in the first book, shows up and plays a key role, both in Dan's life and his approach to his investigation, and in the success of the resolution. I strongly recommend reading this series in order. I'm just sorry it wiki likely be a year before the 3rd mystery in the series is published.
whom he met in the first book of this series. As he stops at a lighthouse, he ends up to his surprise being reinstated into the RCMP by his friend and former boss, after the discovery of the murder of a young aboriginal boy, and the abduction of the assistant light house keeper's wife. Investigative resources in the area are scarce, and links are quicly discovered to some high-end jewel thieves from Victoria. His friend Walker, also introduced in the first book, shows up and plays a key role, both in Dan's life and his approach to his investigation, and in the success of the resolution. I strongly recommend reading this series in order. I'm just sorry it wiki likely be a year before the 3rd mystery in the series is published.
February 23, 2016
This was a pretty good mystery/ thriller. I loved the location: Nootka Island on the isolated West Coast of Vancouver Island. The story mixes in parts of West Coast Indian lore, RCMP activity and the BC criminal elements. The main characters doesn't ride to the rescue all the time but actually requires and gets lots of assistance. I really enjoyed the geography aspects of the story. The place names keep me looking at maps and visualizing what was there. Excellent read!
June 28, 2016
Though the phenomenal descriptions of the Pacific Northwest coast would have gone down better with the help of a map, they, along with the fabulously clear distinctions between the deductive reasoning skills and the intuitive skills respectively of the cop and the Indian, are the best part of this great Canadian crime drama. A satisfying read!
February 16, 2016
Enjoyable, but very predictable.
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