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The Friday 56 is hosted by Freda’s Voice.The only rules are to grab a book (any book), turn to page 56 or 56% in your ereader and find any sentence or a few ( no spoilers) that grabs you and post it.

Please join Rose City Reader every Friday to share the first sentence or so of the book you are reading along with you initial thoughts about the sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the opener inspires.

Please include the title of the book and the author’s name.

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Fatal Tide by Iris Johansen

Iris Johansen is a  New York Times BestsellingAauthor and I know why! 😉

I have several novels she has written, plus I checked out her books from the library, looking for her latest release every time I went in. I love her suspense novels, but I chose this one to spotlight because of the cover and the fact that the main character is a marine researcher. I know a lot of you will recognize her Eve and Duncan series, so…I love anything to do with water, oceans and seas, so this was a no brainer.

MY FRIDAY 56

Then Kelby was there beside her, holding her. She cold hear the pounding of his heart  beneath her ear Life. Carolyn’s heart would never beat like that again.

Fatal Tide is a shorter novel and easy reading for the summer season.

(page 56 in hardback)

MY BOOK BEGINNINGS

Cool water, smooth as glass as Kelby swam through it. Jesus, he was thirsty. He knew all he had to do was open his lips and the water would flow down his throat, but he wanted to see beyond the arched doorway first. It was huge and ornately carved beckoning him forward…

Uh, oh…What do you think happens next?

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GOOREADS BLURB

In this electrifying novel of suspense, #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen takes us deep below the surface, where a ruthless killer strikes without warning, without mercy—and with the deadliest intent.

Marine researcher Melis Nemid is treading dangerous water—and she’s about to be dragged under. Melis knows something that has already caused one oceanographer to disappear from the face of the earth . . . and that’s only part of a past torn by violence and betrayal. She thought she had put that past behind her when she arrived at her Caribbean island home to research dolphin behavior.

But Melis’s peace—and her life—are about to be shattered by a savage killer who is cutting a path of destruction and death that leads directly to her. Only one person can save her—a man who claims to be a fellow oceanographer. But what this enigmatic stranger really wants, Melis may not discover until it’s too late. Because whoever is after her knows her fears intimately. And soon Melis will be forced to relive them all over again. Except for the final nightmare—the one she cannot possibly survive.

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I have the above cover on my hardcover of Fatal Tide by Iris Johansen, but here is the ebook version.

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