Riptide

 In Michaela Thompson's Riptide, the second installment in the Florida Panhandle Mystery series, this tale in the Florida Keys is so captivating and twisted like a riptide in the ocean. It all started when a diver was killed on the dock and an old lady was knocked unconscious at the same. That's when Isabel Anders receives a phone call that her Aunt Merriam was in the hospital and in a coma. She didn't have a real good family connection with her. So she flies down to Cape St. Elmo in the Florida Keys. Her aunt's place was in bad shape. While she tends to her aunt's needs, she gets down to the root of the mystery of who knocked her aunt down and what happened to her father years ago when he disappeared from her. When her ex-boyfriend from the past, Harry Mercer, resurfaced in the past, that's when she connects both mysteries that her family have been all caught up into a tangled mess. The closer to Isabel closing in on the truth of the buried treasure, the more in peril she would be, when she would discover how sinister evil can be deeply rooted below the surface.

 This is an intriguing and compelling mystery that deals with buried treasure and family secrets that would keep you guessing. I cared for Isabel on how her relationship with her aunt Merriam was estranged and strained before this untimely accident had happened to her. I loved her quest for knowledge and truth and what it might mean for her and her family overall. I liked Kimmie Dee and didn't trust Ted or Harry one bit. I loved the Cape St. Elmo location and the gripping scenic settings in the Florida Keys for this sunken treasure hunt-themed mystery. The theme of the story is that your past will have a way on sneaking up on you.

If you love capers that deal with buried treasure hunts in and out of the ocean with non-stop drama, plenty of action, lots of suspense, and full of twisted turns, Riptide is the one for you.

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