By Elizabeth Adler
ISBN-10: 1250019923
ISBN-13: 9781250019929
Night Lake: an idyllic, peaceable, western Massachusetts getaway with a close-knit group of households. Detective Harry Jordan sees his lake domestic as a respite from fixing crimes at the streets of Boston...until crime involves night Lake. Harry Jordan is out for a stroll whilst the evening is rocked via an explosion: the Havnel home is engulfed in a conflagration and Bea Havnel is noticeable fleeing, hair on fireplace, plunging into the lake. Mysterious, rough-around-the edges, and personal, Bea and her mom Lacey are beginners to night Lake and not anything just like the well-heeled households of the group. Bea survives the hearth, yet her mom doesn't, and Harry is pulled into the research. As is younger Diz Osborne, who, unbeknownst to any of them, includes a weighty mystery approximately who else he observed rowing at the lake that evening. while it’s stumbled on that Lacey Havnel died now not from the explosion yet from a knife wound, it’s transparent assassin is at the unfastened. And this assassin is poised to strike back, and back. informed with Elizabeth Adler’s inimitable variety, illuminating descriptions, and complicated kin dynamics, final to understand is the definition of a page-turner.
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