"[An] absorbing and deftly written tale. . . . Lloyd is a born storyteller. He has an eye for detail, drops tantalising breadcrumbs and makes your brain whirr with the prospect that almost anyone could have the means and motive to have carried out some yet-to-be-revealed dark deed. In that vein, The Rising Tide bears similar hallmarks to The Girl On The Train by Paula Hawkins and Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl, in which you're never quite sure whether the prickly, self-contained and not-always-entirely-likeable main protagonist should be pitied or feared. . . . Woven throughout are passages where you simply want to pause and savour the imagery as Lloyd lays bare the terrifying raw power of nature. . . . Lloyd is able to turn on a sixpence and send the reader into a tailspin. Every page promises the literary equivalent of a fresh jab to the solar plexus when least expected." —The Herald (Scotland)

"Lloyd is terrific on atmosphere, channeling the hostile, volatile power of the sea both literally and metaphorically. . . . He's also very good at seeding doubt into the reader's understanding of events through the perspectives of secondary characters, and he excels at taking readers to very dark places. . . . Lloyd sustains the tension against the challenges of credibility through the sheer lyrical power of his writing. I read most this feeling sick and yet still found myself unable to stop." —Metro (UK)

"A darkly chilling and original novel. . . . A series of twists keeps readers captivated until a shocking climax." —Daily Express