Cold Tide: A Seaside Confidential Mystery

By Krysta M

A murder in a coastal town. A cop with a wrecked moral compass. And a conspiracy that doesn't stay buried.

Cold Tide is the gripping first installment in the Seaside Confidential series - a gritty LGBTQ+ crime thriller with a flawed lesbian lead, razor-sharp tension, and slow-burn emotional depth.

Chief Ellie Cook drinks too much, pops pills she won't admit she's addicted to, and avoids intimacy like it's an open flame. She's holding Seaside, Oregon's police department together by a thread - until a beloved teacher's body washes up on the beach in an apparent suicide. Something about the scene feels wrong. Too neat. Too staged.

Ellie's instincts scream murder. But when she pushes back against the official ruling, the town's power players push back harder. As she digs deeper - with help from Maya Burke's fierce and infuriating sister, Carmen - Ellie uncovers a trail of corruption, cover-ups, and missing people no one wants to find.

This case could cost Ellie everything: her badge, her sobriety, even her life. But what she learns about Maya - and herself - might be worth the wreckage.

Cold Tide is perfect for fans of dark police procedurals, Tana French, Gillian Flynn, LGBTQ+ mysteries, and damaged-but-determined women who refuse to look away.

Murder. Corruption. Trauma. Queer love. All under one relentless sky.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FZSG6VLS
• ISBN13: 9798273009592
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 442 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 10.0"