I really enjoyed this book and would highly recommend it to all lovers of crime thrillers. I really liked the writing style and the way the story unfolded.

I loved the Memory Wood and so couldn’t wait to get my teeth into this one! I wasn’t dissatisfied….!!!! What an absolute rollercoaster of a ride this is, so tense and gripping but just beautiful too, the author has a way of making you seriously feel you are there! It’s brilliant, just brilliant and a must read!!!! Fantastic!!!!!

A very tense and clever tale. It feels modern yet old. I really cannot say much more than please PLEASE read this. It’s beautiful and brilliant and it’s not often you can use all those adjectives about one book!

I was fortunate to receive a copy of this ARC from NetGalley and Pigeonhole.

The book starts with what I would consider a partner's worse nightmare! It is a well told story that I really enjoyed.

The Rising Tide

This book had my stomach churning as if I were on the boat with Lucy & Jake facing the waves in the storm!
What a gut-wrenching, heart-in-the-mouth, hands-over-the-eyes nightmarish story.
I shan’t go into details for fear of giving too much away. But this is a book which takes you on a mother and wife’s nightmare descent into hell. Where the events get more shocking, more sick and more desperate hour by hour. Just when you think that a character has surely suffered the depths of pain, there’s more to come. And more. And more.
And then comes the plot twist. This one is so big, you won’t have seen it coming. And at first, like me, you’ll probably find it just a tad far-fetched. But as you shake of that little bit of unease as the twist, you are soon sucked right back into the maelstrom.
One of my books of the year!

Thanks to Random House UK and Netgalley for the ARC.

I absolutely loved the memory wood so couldn’t wait to read this one and I was not disappointed. Sam Lloyd has such a great way of writing, I enjoy the way the stories are told and come together and always love the twists in these novels! This one stood out for me against ordinary thrillers as I really felt it gave something completely different. I liked the northern Devon setting too it made me want to visit!! Highly recommend!

Wow! This is such a fantastic rollercoaster of a book! I could not put it down and it grips you in the very first chapter. This is the first Sam Lloyd book that I have read and will be looking for more. Lucy lives in Cornwall with husband Daniel and children Billie and Finn. Bit by bit, Lucy's life begins to fall apart with secrets and lies woven throughout. Daniel seems to have taken the children and Lucy sets out to find them helped by the deeply religious DI Abraham Rose. This is such a fantastic thriller with so many twists, turns and red herrings, it really has you on the edge of your seat. I was exhausted and jn tears at the end but I so enjoyed the journey. Thank you so much Netgalley for opportunity to read and review this great book.

This was an excellent read. Fast paced and full of plenty of action, with a few twists that I didn't see coming.

The cast of characters was a mix, with some likeable ones and others not so much.

Thank you to PH and Sam for the chance to read this book.

Highly recommend it.

Even though this book is a slow burner. it had you guessing the whole way through. The writing was superb and what an ending.

A really strong thriller. So atmospheric. You almost reach for a warm coat reading the scenes set in the storms on the sea. A tragedy but is it self inflicted. A really original story. Strong and gripping.

This book is brilliant! I can say nothing negative about this one!! Absolutely brilliant from beginning to end.

Another one of thse Perfect Family stories where things are not as they seem.

Lucy and Daniel live in one of those everyone-knows-everyone villages, on the coast. Each of them runs their own business, but Daniel's seems to have run into a spot of bother, and one morning he disappears. His boat is recovered from the open ocean with no sign of Daniel on board. This does not look good especially as a violent storm is brewing, and now a distraught Lucy discovers that the two kids are also missing.

Enter the chief detective in the form of a crusty old god-fearing man, given to quoting bits of the bible at every opportunity, this and his terminal illness were irrelevant, simply stuffed n there in an attempt to make him more interesting. It didn't.

Actually I didn't like Lucy, either and couldn't hep wondering if Daniel's disappearing act was hos way of leaving her. I'll never know because I wasn't engaged enough to continue beyond a third of the book. This is my marker, my Read or Reject point. It was the latter.

Slow, plodding with one-dimensional characters.

My thanks to Netgalley for an ARC.

This is a tense, well written thriller. From page 1 we are intrigued as to who is the narrator and to whom they are referring. The story is set in a fictional, but very authentic Cornish coastal town where Lucy, her husband, Daniel and their son Finn together with Lucy’s 18 year old daughter, Billie are catapulted into a nightmare of epic proportions. I can’t say more without giving away plot twists and turns but trust me you will find this book hard to put down. One other major character in the book is the unpredictable sea - it plays a large part throughout the book and is beautifully described, so much so you feel you’re there too.

Sam Lloyd is an author who likes to shock.
He is an extremely talented author, adept at writing disturbingly dark and clever thrillers. I read his debut novel The Memory Wood with Pigeonhole and was delighted to discover the same 'book club in your pocket' was serialising Lloyd's second novel The Rising Tide.
Set in the fictional town of Skentel, on the coast of the Devon/Cornwall border, this is an exceptionally riveting read featuring the mighty power of Mother Nature and one maverick DI Abraham Rose.
From the beginning this is a read-in-one sitting, highly atmospheric, nail biting (and occasionally gory) book which will have you fighting the forces of the Atlantic and the push and pull of the tide.
Mortis Point is the on-top-of-the-cliffs home to Lucy, her husband Daniel and children Billie and Fin. She owns the Drift Net, hub of the local community and he is an engineer and joint business owner of Locke-Povey Marine.
The close knit community is full of unusual characters and life revolves around the sea which is why the RNLI station features so heavily. Volunteers on the lifeboats are called into action when The Lazy Susan, Daniel and Lucy's yacht is found drifting on the seas. There is a terrible storm brewing and it appears Daniel is missing. Enter the detective whereupon the chilling, astounding and compulsive tale of secrets, rejection, and past events catches up with Lucy in a way which simply takes the wind out of your sails!
Who is telling the truth? Nuanced, deceptive and bound to surprise in quite terrifying ways, will The Rising Tide cleanse and purify your soul, placing you on the path to redemption, or will it engulf you, pull you under and never let you go?
An intelligent thriller which did nothing other than capture my attention and hold me in its vice like grip.
With thanks to Sam Lloyd, the publisher and Pigeonhole (and NETGALLEY!) for the opportunity to read in exchange for an honest review.
I eagerly await Mr Lloyd's next mind blowing offering.

Another complex mystery novel from Sam Lloyd.
Set in a small seaside town and following Lucy as her seemingly perfect life falls apart in a morning.
When her two children and husband go missing Lucy faces a race against time and sets to solve where her children are and why her husband has taken them.

Being a mother this read affected me on a really personal level, the windy and wet seaside town was described so perfectly I could picture it exactly, however, all the sailing and boating terms really bogged down the story for me. But aside from that, it was a brilliantly chunky immersive mystery.

Two words come to mind after I finished The Rising Tide - Mind Blown.

Lucy receives a voicemail message and a knock at the door that changes everything. Daniel (her husband) is missing and the Lazy Susan - the yacht they own is found drifting out at sea with a terrible storm coming in. Their son Fin is also missing - the school advised Daniel picked up Fin earlier in the day. The race is on to find them both especially when the yacht is found and no one is onboard. We also find out that Lucy's daughter Billie is also missing.

I don't want to give too much away. The twists keep turning in this book and I didn't want to put my Kindle down. If you are after a fast read you don't want to go past The Rising Tide.

Thank you Netgalley and Random House/ Bantam for the copy of this book for an honest review.

Such a brilliant and beautifully written read, I devoured this in under two days. Twisty, compelling and utterly readable, this was as tense as any thriller film with just as many twists and turns. My only feedback is that I would have liked to have seen more of a development of Lucy and Daniel's relationship through the flashbacks. Otherwise, I found this gripping and moving, and now can't wait to read any other work from Sam Lloyd.

The Rising Tide is a twisty thriller telling the story of Lucy and Daniel who live an ordinary life with their two children, Billie and Fin. Lucy finds herself in a situation nobody wants to be in. Daniel is missing after sending out a distress signal while out on his boat The Lazy Susan. The story unfolds slowly, revealing Daniel had financial problems due to his business partner and wasn’t in a great place the day he went missing.

It’s hard not to reveal the plot but the tension burns throughout the book, unfortunately at a slow pace at times. There also seems to be unnecessary repetition at times making it hard to maintain the flow of the narrative.

Superb book, I found after the first chapter I couldn't put it down. Let down only by the final word on the Inspector, I don't think the character that was written about, matched the final conclusion.

A different feel to Sam Lloyd's previous book The Memory Wood, but equally chilling and compelling. A husband lost in a North Devon sea, children unable to be found, a looming storm - where should Lucy start to look to rescue her missing family? Claustrophobic and tense on every page, well worth a read