With two brothers on the police force, Leyla Breda is well aware of the rising crime in her small beach town, but she never expected it to show up on her doorstep. When Leyla finds one of her employees murdered in the alley behind her coffee shop, she’s deeply shaken, and as a new law enforcement officer in town begins to circle her place of business, her instincts only sharpen.
Sean Moran is on an undercover mission: The seaside community of Lost Beach may look like a picturesque postcard, but his team suspects it’s a point of intersection for several crime syndicates that the FBI has been investigating for years. Even so, when the brash and beautiful Leyla Breda starts bossing him around, he's immediately intrigued. He knows her brothers want him to back off, but every time he sees her, he feels more of a spark.
Leyla’s connections in the local community and Sean’s skills allow them to go deeper into the case together than they would be able to go alone. But when a single crime spirals into something much darker, Sean’s carefully planned mission takes a deadly turn.
Genre: romantic suspense
Publication date: April 2023
Mature content: yes
Review: Deep Tide is book 4 in the The Texas Murder Files series by Laura Griffin. It can be read as a stand alone, although you will recognize several of the secondary characters from the previous books.
I enjoyed Leyla and Sean's story very much, but there were a few plot details that didn't work entirely well for me. I failed to see the real connection between the murderer and the tech mogul turned criminal, other than the fact that they both worked together with a Mexican drug cartel. The murder victim seemed to have some incriminating photos of the tech mogul, but it was all too circumstantial and not fully explained. Leyla's kidnapping and subsequent transportation to an oil rig offshore also didn't make sense - there were lots of opportunities for the bad guys to kill her and dispose of her body (assuming their was their intention), and yet they locked her in some sort of container which wasn't really locked after.
So, overall it's a good book if you love the genre, but I don't think it's the best in the series so far.
Happy readings!
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