The Water's Edge
by Daniel Judson
Published by St. Martin's Minotaur
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Reviewed by Andrea Sisco
Jake Bechet is an ex-boxer and an ex-enforcer for a South American crime family. Tommy Miller, son of a former corrupt police chief is a retired P.I. with a penchant for mood-altering drugs. The two men do not know each other. Yet.
Their lives intersect on the night two men are hung from a local bridge. Both have had their hands hacked off. It’s a gruesome murder that is sending a message to…someone.
Jake Bechet is roused from his sleep to learn of the murders. Tommy Miller’s life changes when he learns of the murders. The two men find themselves working together and separately to solve the gruesome killings. Bechet is forced by the crime family he worked for to investigate. If he doesn’t do what they say, many of those he loves could lose their lives–and at the top of the list is a woman named Gabrielle. Tommy’s feeling the pressure from the new police chief.
In twenty-four hours the men must solve the murders, or suffer the consequences.
The Water’s Edge is a fast-paced crime novel about human behavior at its best and worst. It’s also about loss, betrayal, redemption and desperation–the desperation to escape one’s past and save the present and keep safe those important people in their lives.
It’s a gripping read that keeps the reader turning the pages. I am now going to search out Judson’s earlier novels, The Darkest Place, The Bone Orchard and The Poisoned Rose.
Armchair Interviews says: The Water’s Edge by Daniel Judson is a winner.