Who Killed Toby Ireland? is the first installment in the popular novel series The Big Tide Chronicles. Set in the Florida Keys, in the not-too-distant future, the novels chronicle the adventures of Finn, Nick Cassini, Dr. Kate Sullivan, Tara O’Hara, and a cast of misfits and miscreants as they struggle to repel a variety of threats to the Conch Republic. Currently, there are three (3) novels available with several more in the works.
During a six-month period of time in 2024 the world changed. An aquatic blitzkrieg, slowly building over decades, unleashed itself. From the time of the Industrial Revolution in the mid-19th century, on average, sea level had risen a little over a tenth of an inch each year or about one foot per century. Throughout the 20th century, the increasing glacier melt in the Arctic, Antarctic, and Greenland hastened that rise.