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  • By: Elizabeth Haynes
  • Narrator: Justine Eyre
  • Category: Fiction, Romance, Suspense
  • Length: 10 hours 21 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: March 12, 2013
  • Language: English
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Dark Tide Audiobook Summary

“Chilling.” — Associated Press

“An intense psychological thriller.” — Publishers Weekly

From Elizabeth Haynes, author of the bestselling debut Into the Darkest Corner, comes a tense, gripping thriller about a woman caught in an underworld of corruption and murder.

Genevieve has finally achieved her dream: to leave the stress of London behind and start a new life aboard a houseboat in Kent. She’s found the perfect vessel: Revenge of the Tide. She already feels less lonely; as if the boat is looking after her.

But the night of her boat-warming party, a body washes up, and to Genevieve’s horror, she recognizes the victim. She isn’t about to tell the police, though; hardly anyone knows about her past as a dancer at a private members’ club, The Barclay. The death can’t have anything to do with her. Or so she thinks…

Soon, the lull of the waves against Revenge feels anything but soothing, as Genevieve begins to receive strange calls and can’t reach the one person who links the present danger with her history at the club. Fearing for her safety, Genevieve recalls the moment when it all started to go wrong: the night she saw her daytime boss in the crowd at The Barclay…

Dark, sexy, and exquisitely chilling, Dark Tide is another superb mystery from acclaimed rising star Elizabeth Haynes.

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Dark Tide Audiobook Narrator

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Elizabeth Haynes is the author of Dark Tide

Dark Tide Full Details

Narrator Justine Eyre
Length 10 hours 21 minutes
Author Elizabeth Haynes
Category
Publisher HarperAudio
Release date March 12, 2013
ISBN 9780062239891

Subjects

The publisher of the Dark Tide is HarperAudio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, Romance, Suspense

Additional info

The publisher of the Dark Tide is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780062239891.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

Goodreads Reviews

Alex

June 12, 2017

There was a moment when it had all started to go horribly wrong, when things began to unravel. They’d unravelled at the Barclay at just about the same time that my night job collided with the day job.Genevieve Shipley has taken a year off work to follow the dream she shared with her late father. “Re

Alex

March 30, 2017

Genevieve Shipley is living her dream, renovating a barge "Revenge of the Tide" as a houseboat near the mouth of the river Medway in Kent. To get there, she gave in her notice at her high-powered sales job in London with an odious boss, and at the Barclay, a men's club where she worked as a pole-dancer at weekends under the name "Viva", owned by Fitz and his heavies, and sometimes at private parties where more than dancing was involved-for a price. She throws a houseboat warming party, inviting friends from London who now seem shallow, her neighbours in the tightknit community of houseboat owners, and Caddy, also a pole dancer at the club who used the name "Kitten". Caddy does turn up, not at the party, but her body bangs against the houseboat in the early hours. Now a crime scene, Genevieve does not at first admit to the police that she recognised the body. The bad vive continues, the security light at the marina is cut, a car drives away in darkness without lights, the neighbours' cat is killed and thrown on the quay, while Genevieve tries to fathom who is responsible, embarking on an affair with one of the investigating officers. This book held my attention throughout, partly due to the detail of her current circumstance with the renovations, the rise and fall of the tide erasing evidence, and the lives of her neighbours, with flashbacks to the life she has tried to escape. Pole-dancing provided her with a vigorous workout and was lucrative, but not without its risks as the novel explores the darker side of the male psyche. This book was originally published as "Revenge of the Tide" and I would have liked to have got hold of an earlier version as my copy was the US one, suffering from the usual editing: tyre became tire; car park became car lot, even though that means a sales yard in the UK, "arse" in the dialogue became "ass" in the narrative. Annoying, I thought. The author's notes suggested a bitter-sweet ending was rewritten to appease the publishing houses.Verdict: a powerful thriller rendered spineless through an excess of editing.

Becky

March 18, 2013

Last year there was a ton of buzz around Haynes's debut release, INTO THE DARKEST CORNER. Having read it in just about one sitting (on an amazingly pretty afternoon here in CO), I can say that all of that buzz was warranted. INTO THE DARKEST CORNER was a pretty phenomenal and chilling read. You can imagine, then, that the expectations going into DARK TIDE were pretty high. Readers, I was not disappointed!Genevieve has long dreamed of buying a boat - a houseboat she can live on and fix up and maybe even do some traveling. She worked two jobs to save up enough money and now her dream has finally come true. But Genevieve's dream soon becomes a nightmare when the body of one of her old coworkers is found floating in the river near her new abode.DARK TIDE is every bit as intense and fast paced as INTO THE DARKEST CORNER. Like her debut, Haynes tells her story in two different timelines - now and then. Now with the discovery of Caddy's body and the events that follow and then being the events that led up to the start of the book.But don't be mistaken, these are two very different stories with two very different heroines: Genevieve is quite possibly the exact opposite of Catherine. Genevieve is a sales person by day and an exotic dancer by night. She has no qualms about doing a little extra for the job if it means getting her one step closer to her dream. But when she's harassed at work, she fights back full force. (Haynes recently discussed some of the differences in writing the two books on her blog.) This author has a real talent for putting together a captivating mystery. For me, Haynes is a guaranteed one-sitting or up-all-night read, so be prepared! Just be warned, she's seemingly not afraid to delve into the darkest reaches of her imagination. I'll admit, though, DARK TIDE wasn't quite as dark and twisted as INTO THE DARKEST CORNER.

Kelly

April 02, 2013

Like her first book, Into the Darkest Corner, this book is almost relentless. It's not as creepy as that one was, but I was still completely enthralled.Also like her first book, this book goes back and forth in time. We see Genevieve in trouble and while we see the effects of that trouble, we also see the actions that led up to it.I loved Genevieve. She's nervous---because who wouldn't be? She's attacked and she knows that she's dealing with dangerous people---but she's also one of those people who you just know will never give up and who will never stop fighting. She doesn't always make the best choices, but who does?I also loved Dylan. And Dylan-and-Genevieve? Yes. Yes, please.This is one of those books that will murder sleep. So start it early.Her next book comes out in August and I can't wait to devour it. I'm officially in to read anything that Elizabeth Haynes writes ever.Highly recommended.

Liz

March 13, 2013

I have recently re-read this book and as I did not review it previously, here we go. Genevieve has left her stressful life in London and now spends her days renovating her barge in Kent, socialising with other barge owners and generally enjoying a slower pace of life. After a "boatwarming" party, a body washes up against her barge, her two worlds collide and she is thrust into intrigue. At this point we begin to realise there is more to Genevieve's London life than we understood initially. Elizabeth Haynes weaves an intricate tale, using both past and present settings to slowly reveal Genevieve's story and takes us inexorably towards a final resolution. Ms Haynes had a hard act to follow - "Into the Darkest Corner" was a stunning comment on domestic violence and obsession and was quite rightly hailed as a "stunning debut" and was universally adored by anyone that read it. Sensibly I feel, "Revenge" is a totally different kind of story - one about how the choices we make affects who we are, and at its heart an absolutely terrific mystery. I devoured this novel during my first reading almost in one sitting, just as I did with "Darkest Corner"..upon my re-read I have discovered new depths to the characters, and a new respect for Elizabeth Haynes as an author. Read this. Read "Into the Darkest Corner" and make absolutely sure you read her terrific character novel "Human Remains". And read them more than once. If I had my way she would write a book a month. Absolutely now at the top of my "must read immediately" list of authors, I simply cannot wait for the next novel.

Sheila

March 23, 2017

Something very evocatively scary happens in the first pages of Elizabeth Haynes’ novel Dark Tide, setting the scene for a very dark story indeed. It’s a story told in multiple points of view, with converging timelines that move irrevocably to or from that very first scene. And nobody is quite what they seem.Details ring authentically true, from depictions of peaceful houseboat life to the shadows of London’s criminal underworld, from haunting mystery to haunted memory, and from sunshine to rain. Newly remodeled houseboat rooms hide as many secrets as a newly remodeled life. And a dark tide turns an over-the-top housewarming party into questions of accidental death.Elizabeth Haynes’ novel is filled with believably odd characters, none of them perfect, but with shining lights of goodness. Relationships can be shelter or escape. But behind it all is the question of who is truly good—or if true goodness can be found by someone so flawed. It’s a story that draws the reader into worlds they might not wish to visit, through the eyes of a flawed protagonist, and sends them, like a houseboat whose engine has never been tried, into dangerous waters. It’s a good story, seductive, sad, filled with questions, but overarchingly filled with that aching search for goodness, trust and truth.I really enjoyed this novel.Disclosure: I bought it on a deal when my basement was flooded – dark tides indeed.

Kaitlin

June 05, 2020

This was a very good book! 4.8!!! I really liked what she did with explaining the past and the present slowly to keep the interest. I 100% suggest you read this book, very good!

Ann

June 07, 2018

Good mystery.

Meghan (TheBookGoblin)

April 14, 2021

There are a lot of mixed reviews for this but I found I really enjoyed it. It was sort of like Hustlers meets Law & Order. Not much of a mystery but I found it very compelling.

Marcella

April 21, 2020

Really good crime fiction read!! About a pole dancer whom got mixed up with some criminal characters in the club that she danced in.

Renny

April 21, 2017

Absolutely loved this novel. Despite all the cliches it's so well written, the characters pop out of the kindle! This author's talent is refreshing. Second book by her that I read and can say I am a fan. Great stories, the way she mingles the flashback and the current narrative is perfectly done, you get the revelations slowly and steadly. I also loved learning about house boats and life on them; I've always dreamed of living in one so it was an extra perk. So, all in all, great suspense, excellent characters, good plot, well tangled and well presented. Highly recommended.

Ali

August 23, 2020

Another great book by Elizabeth Haynes. Into the Darkest Corner is still my favorite book of hers; but Dark Tide was similarly written, just now with new characters/plot. Highly recommend.

Hannah

November 17, 2014

I am rounding this up from 3.5 to 4 stars because I'm feeling a little like defending this underdog of a book; one which seems to be the lowest rated and reviewed of Elizabeth Haynes' novels. I love Haynes' thrillers, from her debut Into the Darkest Corner, featuring a heroine with OCD and a scary stalker, to her third novel, Human Remains, featuring a very twisted murder method.Dark Tide is Haynes' second novel, and I'd never read it because all the reviews I saw were disappointing. Luckily for me, I recently found myself in a reading slump, craving a thriller from one of my favorite authors (in the vein of Julia Crouch, Elizabeth Haynes, Nicci French). So, I picked up Dark Tide from my local library, and I'm so glad that I did.I've found that having very low expectations of a book or movie often means that I actually appreciate the good things about it more. And while Dark Tide was different from the other thrillers I've read by Haynes, and was weak in some ways, I also found it to be immensely enjoyable. My favorite things about Dark Tide were the two "themes" it is based around, which are fixing up and living on a houseboat on a marina near London, and pole fitness/dancing. Both of these things are subjects I know next to nothing about, and I found reading about the main character, Genevieve's, experience of them to be absorbing escapism. Genevieve herself is a good person, and the tone of Dark Tide is also, at heart, decent. It's a thriller in which bad people do bad things, but in which plenty of good, imperfect, people, also try their best. I really liked this about Dark Tide. *Quick sidenote: I've recently been reading a lot of thrillers which are categorized as "horror" and have realized that the element of horror...of a world that is ultimately evil and terrifying and bleak, is not one I enjoy immersing myself in. I love suspense and thrillers, and I like twisted plots, and mind-trips. I like excitement, but I don't enjoy pure terror. Dark Tide is a good example of a thriller in which there was plenty of suspense, but which left me feeling hopeful.Also, it is worth noting that I read the US edition of this novel, and the afterword stated that in this edition, the author appreciated that she had been encouraged to further develop Genevieve's backstory. So it is possible that Dark Tide had differences from its original UK incarnation (Revenge of the Tide) which improved my impression of it.Also, Elizabeth Haynes' website includes a wonderful blog about Dark Tide with photos of many of the locations in England which inspired her novel. Ultimately, Dark Tide is an enjoyable romantic-suspense novel, light on plot, but rich in interesting characters and settings. It's different fare from the other novels I've read by Haynes, but I'm so glad I decided to give it a try.

Tânia

February 04, 2017

Depois de no ano passado ter lido o único livro desta autora editado em Portugal (No canto mais escuro) e do fato de ele ter ficado tão vincado na minha memória, quando descobri esta edição brasileira, não hesitei em começar a sua leitura. (Como infelizmente em Portugal insistem e nos fazer escrever e ler meio abrasileirado, não foi difícil para mim acompanhar a leitura. Um aparte para expressar o meu desagrado com o novo acordo ortográfico e nada contra com o povo brasileiro.Este livro, apesar de não ter nada a ver com o primeiro, não deixa de ter os seus pontos fortes, esta história acompanha Genevieve na luta em esquecer o passado e seguir com a sua vida. A protagonista consegue concretizar o sonho de ter e viver num barco, fora da cidade de Londres, onde iremos perceber que era um ambiente que martirizava Genevieve.A protagonista vai nos descrevendo a sua vida e como conseguiu o dinheiro para abandonar a cidade, nunca imaginado que esse passado irá voltar de novo ao seu presente, a partir do momento em que ao inaugurar o seu barco convida os antigos amigos e nessa mesma noite aparece a boiar perto do seu barco o corpo de alguém que ela conhece, mas que vai ocultar até não poder que o reconheceu. É este assassino que vai desencadear na personagem a vontade de ir revivendo o seu passado, o trabalho numa grande empresa bem remunerado e o par-time que fazia numa boate luxuosa.Genevieve, começa a perceber que se meteu com as pessoas erradas e que toda a sua vida vai sofrer com isso, a partir do momento que descobrem o seu paradeiro no barco. Cabe a ela contar tudo o que sabe e conseguir destruir quem lhe quer mal, para poder seguir em frente, mesmo não sabendo, a pessoa que sempre a ajudou e vai ajudar é quem ela menos imagina.

Jacki (Julia Flyte)

April 20, 2014

Genevieve has been living alone on a houseboat outside London for seven months. Prior to this she worked as a pole dancer in a gentlemen's club to save the money to buy it. She left the club by making a pact, that gave her the money she needed in exchange for leaving that world behind. However when the body of a former friend from the club washes up against her boat, she realises that she is anything but safe.I really liked this thriller. It takes a few chapters to find its momentum and - as so often happens in this genre - comes apart a bit at the end, but for the most part it's a gripping page turner which holds its mystery close. The story weaves between the present and taking us through Genevieve's life at the club, a world that in many ways reminded me of the early Simon Kernick thrillers. Dylan, Fitz and Leon could so easily have been characters in one of his novels. Both the sordid club world and the convivial marina community are captured really well and you feel like you get a good sense of what they would be like.The ending does a good job of tying all the strands together but it's one of those finishes that don't really hold up to logic. It's not as strong a book as Into the Darkest Corner, but it's still better than many others in the genre and it kept me up at least an hour later than I intended to stay up reading because I simply couldn't put it down.

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