Review – Deadly Undertow

The current’s fatal pull is powerful, but so is one detective’s will to live. When someone from Cassidy Livingston’s past shows up on Lantern Beach and warns her of impending peril, opposing currents collide, threatening to drag her under. Running would be easy. But leaving would break her heart. Cassidy must decipher between the truth and lies, between reality and deception. Even more importantly, she must decide whom to trust and whom to fear. Her life depends on it. As danger rises and answers surface, everything Cassidy thought she knew is tested. In order to survive, Cassidy must take drastic measures and end the battle against the ruthless gang DH-7 once and for all. But if her final mission fails, the consequences will be as deadly as the raging undertow.

My thoughts: DEADLY UNDERTOW is the sixth and final book in Ms. Barritt’s Lantern Beach series, but she has started a new spinoff series set around that magical beach on the Atlantic Ocean.

Cassidy’s time undercover is coming to an end–as she always knew it would–and there is only one possible outcome. With her advisor gone missing and her ex-boyfriend suddenly showing up with stories she found unbelievable–but yet, maybe, possibly believable, she isn’t quite sure what to think. But attempts on her life is escalating from an “accidental drowning” when she’s caught in an undertow to an abduction, and more. Ever so much more.

Some of it suspended the believability, but the action, the fast pace, the edge of your seat flow of the storytelling never diminished. Fans of Ms. Barritt know what to expect and DEADLY UNDERTOW as well as the other books in this series: Hidden Currents, Flood Watch, Storm Surge, Dangerous Waters, and Perilous Riptide (I suggest reading them in order)

A great story, a great mystery, and plenty of drama.