Reviewer: Lori Graham
Title: A Killing Tide
Author: P.J. Alderman
Publisher: Dorchester
ISBN: 0-505-52696-4
Release Date: November 2006
Genre/Sub-genre: Romantic Suspense
Year/Setting: Current/Oregon
Overall Rating: 4.8
Sexual Content Rating: Sensual
Language (Profanity) Rating: Moderate
Violent Content Rating: Moderate
P.J.'s Website: www.pjalderman.com/index.html
Kaz Jorgensen has her life settled in California with her consulting business, her home and her partner established. However, she receives a call from her hometown friend, Lucy, asking her to consider coming home because Kaz’s twin brother, Gary, has been acting strangely. In fact, beyond strange which is why Lucy is worried.
Kaz makes arrangements with her partner to cover whatever is necessary there and takes some work with her and heads to Oregon. Her family has worked the waters around Astoria for generations and her brother has currently taken over the line. She convinces her brother to let her do the crabbing with the second boat while he continues with their main boat the Anna Marie. As much as she hates to admit it, Kaz is worried about Gary as well.
Things begin to get much more complicated and finally Kaz decides it is time to find Gary and hash things out. Not being able to locate him anywhere else, she finally ends up at their boat, the Anna Marie, to see if he is holed up at the marina. Just as she arrives, the Anna Marie blows up and since she sees his truck in the parking lot she is sure he is aboard. One major wrinkle though, the body she pulls to safety isn’t her brother’s. Gary has gone underground and his crew hand is dead (and not from the fire).
This is when Kaz meets the new fire chief, Michael Chapman. Michael has had his share of personal issues to deal with which is why he decided to move to a small town to become the fire chief and investigator. He didn’t intend to get so mixed up with things so quickly but then murder waits for no man – nor does attraction.
For a debut author, P.J. Alderman does a fantastic job of creating intrigue, suspense, drama, romance, and so much more. The plot is well laid out and incredibly plausible with characters who are full and real. Kaz is a strong and determined heroine. She could work on some of her limits 
but then couldn’t we all. That makes her believable and a woman the reader wants to cheer for.
Michael as the leading man is also a man readers love to love. He is strong, burly, manly and so on and so on. However, he also has a vulnerable side that softens the edges and makes him a man you want the heroine to love.
Again, if A Killing Tide is P.J.’s debut, a bright future is on the horizon and I can’t wait to see more.
Lori
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