The US edition has given me a chance to develop Genevieve’s story further, and for that, and for her insightful and diligent editing, I would like to thank my editor at HarperCollins, Jennifer Barth. Thank you, too, to the team at HarperCollins who has worked so hard on the book and been incredibly supportive: Jonathan Burnham, Maya Ziv, Heather Drucker, Richard Ljoenes, David Watson, Kathy Schneider, Katie O’Callaghan, Mark Ferguson, Virginia Stanley, Cindy Achar, and Douglas Johnson.
I would also like to thank Vanessa Very and Linda Weeks for reading early drafts and making invaluable suggestions that changed the course of the story completely. Vanessa, who seems to be making a habit of resurrecting characters I try to kill off, saved Dylan from just such a fate.
While I was conducting research for the book, Jill Zago very kindly let me spend some time on her boat, Tobias, and helped me with all my questions about living aboard. Thank you very much, Jill!
Two reference books in particular were also invaluable, and I can highly recommend them to any reader: A Home Afloat by Paul Cookson, with wonderful photographs of boats that provided inspiration for the interiors of the Revenge of the Tide; and Living Aboard by Nick Corble and Allan Ford, which helped me with the practical aspects of converting a barge to living accommodation.
I would also like to thank Jane Salida, Louise Payne, and Keli Stephenson of the fabulous Pole Saints, who introduced me to pole fitness, and to the other class members who let me draw stick figures while they did all the hard work. Thank you, too, to Nikki W., who kindly answered my questions about working in London clubs. For a detailed account of a dancer’s life, I can highly recommend the excellent book Girl in High Heels by Ellouise Moore.
So many people provided support and encouragement while I was writing this book that it would take several pages to list them all. So thank you to all my wonderful friends and colleagues at Kent Police, especially to Lisa James and Mitch Humphrys, who kindly checked my manuscript for procedural accuracy. To the talented Medway Mermaids, and to the inspirational Rochester and Chatham Book Club—thank you, ladies. And for all my online friends, especially the Kent NaNoWriMo participants who went through the madness of November with me—thank you.
The last and best thanks of all to my boys, David and Alex, I love you.
About the Author
Elizabeth Haynes is a police intelligence analyst, a civilian role that involves determining patterns in offending and criminal behavior. Dark Tide is her second novel; rights to her first, Into the Darkest Corner, have been sold in twenty-five territories. Haynes lives in England in a village near Maidstone, Kent, with her husband and son.
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Original cover design by Anthony Grech-Cumbo
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Copyright
DARK TIDE. Copyright © 2013 by Elizabeth Haynes. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Originally published in a different form in Great Britain as Revenge of the Tide
by Myriad Editions in 2012.
FIRST U.S. EDITION
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Haynes, Elizabeth, [date]
Dark tide : a novel / Elizabeth Haynes. — 1st U.S. ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-06-219733-7
1. Murder—Investigation—Fiction. 2. Organized crime—England—London—Fiction. 3. Houseboats—Fiction. 4. Kent (England)—Fiction. I. Title.
PR6108.A9677R48 2012
823'.92—dc23
2012024422
Epub Edition © MARCH 2013 ISBN: 9780062197344
13 14 15 16 17 OV/RRD 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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