Dead in the Water (Holder novel)

Dead in the Water is a novel by Nancy Holder, published by Robinson Publishing in 1994.

Plot summary

Dead in the Water is a horror novel which involves several characters (a cancer-ridden boy and his doctor father, a bickering wealthy couple, an old lady whose husband was lost at sea, and a female cop who once failed to save the life of a drowning boy) aboard a rickety old freighter.[1]

Reception

Cliff Ramshaw reviewed Dead in the Water for Arcane magazine, rating it a 6 out of 10 overall.[1] Ramshaw comments that "Jarring, and not particularly evocative. Things start slowly, not least because the only character drawn with any conviction is the lady cop - one significant item of person history is about as much as the other characters get. Gradually, though, the plot and the fog thicken, and a brooding sense of nastiness evolves as our heroes desperately ignore the increasingly strange going on around them."[1]

Reviews
  • Review by Scott Winnett (1994) in Locus, #403 August 1994
  • Review by Graham Andrews (1996) in Vector 187
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References
  1. Ramshaw, Cliff (January 1996). "The Great Library". Arcane. Future Publishing (2): 91.
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