Slack Tide: Part 3

by Max Meadows

It's been a year since Adam Battle left Afghanistan and active-duty status with the Marines. Now fresh out of a stint in rehab, he's finally returned to his hometown of Malden, the Carolina seaport where he lives in the house his late parents left to him and his cop sister, Trudy. When he runs into an old high school girlfriend at the town's fall festival, he finds out that she's married, then heads straight for a bar to get black-out drunk. The next morning, his old flame is dead and Adam doesn't remember a thing. Even worse, Trudy Battle is the detective assigned to find the killer.

This supernatural crime mystery kicks into high gear as Detective Battle attempts to clear her brother's name and bring the real killer to justice. Fans of James Patterson and Stephen King - and readers of all kinds who enjoy a taut thriller with a Southern Gothic flair - will be riveted by this debut series by native North Carolinian Max Meadows.

This Kindle Single is the third installment of a weekly serial, to be released each Friday for 15 weeks before being released in its entirety as a complete novel.

16 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 9, 2016

About the author

Max Meadows, native North Carolinian, gets story ideas and character names from dreams. Several years ago, while at a conference in Barbados on a revamped slave plantation, the character of Otymnestra came in a dream. She told Max her life story and her unusual name. Upon waking, Max attempted to look up the name online--and found not one reference. The CAPE FEAR TRILOGY has its origins in this dream and that trip to Barbados.