The Actaeon Tide - Softcover

"Tom Anderson draws us into this supernatural thriller, his fictional debut, with some skill...in mashing up a horror story with a hardboiled crime narrative and a gritty portrayal of suburban Wales, The Actaeon Tide is certainly an original novel. Characters are well-drawn, and neatly contrasted. We get a strong sense of place, especially when on the coast close to the Welsh-English border and around the Vale, but also on trips to London and the Channel Islands." New Welsh Review

Noah, a debt collector and investigator in his late twenties, is slowly putting away enough money to get out of the murky world of solicitors, bankers, bent coppers and cheating wives for good. All he's ever wanted is to make a wedge so he can emigrate some place where the surf is good and the weather warm, but then comes the job that changes everything. A mysterious woman thinks her huge house in the Vale is hiding the darkest of secrets. Drawn to the money and aided by the advice of occult-specialist Alys, Noah lifts the lid on a bizarre world in which depravity and deceit are in charge, where night time covers the inexplicable and where the dream of escaping to ride a few waves is soon growing further out of reach. The Actaeon Tide is a tale of ancient myth meeting new money, set at the shoreline of an all conquering sea.