Philippe shook his head: impossible. Juliette and Osandi had been at the water’s very edge, they’d never had a chance. No chance at all. They found her at the hospital, among the dozens—no, already the hundreds of corpses the ocean had given back and that now lay, for lack of room, right on the floor. Osandi and her father lay there, too.
He definitely doesn't bother holding you in suspense with darkness -- we aren't left to wonder if there's actually a chance the father-in-law is wrong and the kids are alive
