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Tidewater Murder (2013)

by C. Hope Clark(Favorite Author)

4.39 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1611942578 (ISBN13: 9781611942576)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Bell Bridge Books

series

Caroline Slade Mystery Series

review 1: Hope Clark's Tidewater Murder gives the reader another page-turner mystery in the Carolina Slade series. From beginning to end, the action never stops. Action comes both physically and emotionally in this book, giving it a more human quality than most mysteries.Carolina Slade’s friendship with co-worker Savannah Conroy at the state Agriculture office takes the first test, which continues throughout the story. Others try repeatedly to remove Slade from the case due to her friendship, but she pursues on in trying to prove Savannah innocent. They eventually still go out to dinners and for drinks in the process of finding out who actually did the crime. Savannah proves the friendship true by helping Slade through her other personal trials.Slade must also navigate not on... morely working, but romantic relations with Wayne. He tries many times to remove her from the case at hand but out of possible conflict of interest and his own interest in her. Savannah helps in this department by giving Slade a place to turn when another male agent, Monroe, acts upon his feelings for Slade and almost distracts her from her primary relationship with Wayne. The relationship between them, even when sexual, receives very tasteful descriptions to show its secondary, yet important, place in the story.In these ways, Tidewater Murder shows how psychology plays an important role in mystery writing. Relationships take prominent places in showing how solving a crime needs human elements to flow as life does. This makes the novel easier for the reader to relate with and keeps her coming back for more.
review 2: I've been following Hope Clark for years just waiting for her books to come out! She has delivered as great a story in this second novel as she did in the first. I love all of the characters but Carolina Slade is just a wonderfully written character. She is well-rounded and realistic-very much like the southern women that I have known all my life. I cannot wait for the next book! Great job Hope! less

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