Tim Holland, ’62, is the author of the novel “The Rising Tide: A Sidney Lake Lowcountry Mystery.”
The story features English professor Sidney Lake and his Gullah housekeeper, Tillie James, who comb the lowcountry of South Carolina in an attempt to prove a woman innocent of a crime the police are not convinced happened.
Lake uses summertime as a respite for literary research and planning his next semester, but his housekeeper has other plans for him. She needs his help in dealing with a touchy subject: the death of George Reed and the suspicions it aroused that his wife, Becky, was involved, even though the coroner and the police chief declared Reed’s death an unfortunate accident.
It’s up to Lake and Tillie — along with his graduate assistant, the local minister and a retired policeman — to save Becky Reed’s reputation. The proof of her innocence seems to rest on the quirks of the rising and falling tide in the marsh where George died. But the search for truth turns out to be more than Lake bargained for — and suddenly, his life and those of his friends are on the line.
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