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Reviewed by Jamie Michele for Readers' Favorite
Tidal Overlook by Helen Montague Foster follows Dr. Nancy Thomas, who, on a drive to their river cabin with her husband, Mack, and foster daughter, Soolie, sees a body in a field near Wyding Overlook. Three men threaten Nancy and demand that they leave. Later, Soolie reveals she found a gun in the woods, and when Nancy drives her to school, intending to turn it in, the gun is discovered in her car during a traffic stop, resulting in a concealed-weapon charge for Nancy. Compounding this, one of Nancy’s patients dies by suicide, making her the subject of a wrongful-death lawsuit. Social services remove Soolie from Nancy’s care. Nancy finds herself tangled in the legal system, fighting to get Soolie back, and the slow revelation of what really happened to her patient, and is still going on at the Overlook.
Helen Montague Foster’s Tidal Overlook is a suspenseful mystery with multiple moving parts. The overriding plot regarding Soolie's removal was, while engrossing and still an angle I enjoyed, not quite as enthralling to me as everything surrounding the Millan case. We know what happened with Soolie, but Millan's suicide is what kept me guessing, alongside the fate of his stepson, Jeb. Foster is great at the procedural elements—subpoenas, legal ambiguities, the questioning of Herrick Winston, preparation for depositions, courtroom strategy, and the scrutiny of Millan’s medical records. The writing is tight, the pace runs at a fast clip, and there are huge amounts of top-down layering, literally from drones to fields, making the story sing. Overall, this is a brilliant read. Very highly recommended.
