Dead in the Water (Holder novel)
Dead in the Water is a novel by Nancy Holder, published by Abyss/Dell 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. Reception. Cliff Ramshaw reviewed "Dead in the Water" for "Arcane" magazine, rating it a 6 out of 10 overall. 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."