“Keith Rosson’s fearless and genre-bending debut novel, The Mercy of the Tide, is harrowing, haunting, and hypnotic. This is nightmare material of the first order, at once exhilarating and profoundly disturbing. It’ll leave you breathless. Riptide, Oregon, is a forbidding landscape of shattered lives and broken dreams, and it’s a scarier place than the world you’re living in. Pour yourself a bracing drink, settle into your comfy chair. Once you begin this book, you won’t be going anywhere. What talent, what nerve, what an astonishing first novel.”
—John Dufresne, author of I DON’T LIKE WHERE THIS IS GOING
“An astonishing debut soaked with suspense. Rosson brings his characters to life with surefooted precision. The town of Riptide, Oregon, may be cursed with rain, but it will be scorched into your memory. Outlandishly excellent.”
—Jim Ruland, author of FOREST OF FORTUNE
“This story of a community of wounded souls takes some gutsy turns off the main roads to stake its own unforgettable territory. With grit and empathy, Rosson tells a story of heartache and grief unlike any I’ve ever read.”
—James Boice, author of THE SHOOTING and MVP
“A dark thrill ride.”