Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Low Tide | 2015 | Dawn Lee McKenna | Buy |
| 2 | Riptide | 2015 | Dawn Lee McKenna | Buy |
| 3 | What Washes Up | 2015 | Dawn Lee McKenna | Buy |
| 4 | Landfall | 2015 | Dawn Lee McKenna | Buy |
| 5 | Dead Wake | 2015 | Dawn Lee McKenna | Buy |
| 6 | Awash | 2016 | Dawn Lee McKenna | Buy |
| 7 | Apparent Wind | 2017 | Dawn Lee McKenna | Buy |
| 8 | Lake Morality | 2018 | Dawn Lee McKenna | Buy |
| 9 | Squall Line | 2018 | Dawn Lee McKenna | Buy |
| 10 | Overboard | 2018 | Dawn Lee McKenna | Buy |
| 11 | Ebb Tide | 2019 | Dawn Lee McKenna | Buy |
| 12 | Back of the Bayou | 2019 | Dawn Lee McKenna | Buy |
The Forgotten Coast follows Lieutenant Maggie Redmond through twelve books of crime fiction set in Apalachicola, Florida. The series opens with Low Tide, where a body turns up in the small Gulf Coast town and Maggie has to balance her job, her kids, and her complicated feelings for a local businessman while tracking a killer. Each book brings a new case while the personal storylines carry forward.
Dawn Lee McKenna published the entire twelve-book run between 2015 and 2019, keeping a steady pace. The Apalachicola setting is central — the oyster boats, the bayous, the barrier islands, and the small-town dynamics where secrets don’t stay buried long. Readers who pick up Low Tide tend to move through the series quickly, drawn by both the mysteries and the relationships that develop over the full run.