FLOOD TIDE

When a body washes up on the shore of a harbor island, LT Nichols, Laurel, Maine’s chief of police, discovers that it’s the son of Laurel’s most noteworthy summer resident, Randolph Grimes, the US Secretary of Commerce.  The case is deemed too big for the smalltown Nichols.  A United States marshal is flown in from Washington.  When she arrests one of Laurel’s native sons for murder, Nichols has his doubts.  He launches his own investigation.  A host of federal agents line up to shut him down.

And that’s when the real trouble starts.

. . .

“Flood Tide will sweep you up, throw you into a whirlpool, and have you gasping—not for air—but for the truth. LT Nichols, police chief of Laurel, Maine, cares about the truth.  But there are those who will stop at nothing to keep it from being revealed. Suspenseful and surprising, Albert Waitt's book will catch you like a riptide and pull you to a fully satisfying ending.” 

~ Sarah Bewley, author of Burning Eden

“Flood Tide is small-town politics and power, where appearances are more than maintained. This novel ripples with the dark undercurrent of life and crime in a New England town.” 

~ Gabriel Valjan, author of the Shane Cleary Mystery Series