These still black waters / Christina McDonald.

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Title:

These still black waters / Christina McDonald.

Author:

McDonald, Christina, author.

ISBN:

9781662511615

Physical Description:

299 pages ; 22 cm.

Series:

A Jess Lambert thriller ; 1

Jess Lambert thriller.

Abstract:

"After a violent home invasion, Neve Maguire returns with her daughter to Black Lake, her childhood summer home, hoping for a fresh start. But when the body of a woman is found floating among the reeds in the lake behind her house, she fears she has made a horrible mistake. Neve is hiding secrets, though. Detective Jess Lambert can tell. Recently back after her own personal tragedy, Jess knows what it?s like to live with skeletons in your closet, and she?s sure Neve has a few of her own. When another woman?s body is found, Jess and Neve are forced to confront a horrible truth. Because one thing is clear: the darkness of the past is waiting. And the secrets of Black Lake are only just beginning to surface" -- Amazon.

Genre:

Thrillers (Fiction)

Psychological fiction.

Novels.

Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787

Novels. (OCoLC)fst01921742

Psychological fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726481

Thrillers (Fiction) (OCoLC)fst01726755

Romans.

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Library	Material Type	Item Barcode	Shelf Number	Status
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Summary

Two women struggle toward a dark truth as a killer avenges the sins of the past in a twisting novel of suspense by the USA Today bestselling author of Do No Harm , Behind Every Lie , and The Night Olivia Fell .

After a violent home invasion, Neve Maguire returns with her daughter to Black Lake, her childhood summer home, hoping for a fresh start. But when the body of a woman is found floating among the reeds in the lake behind her house, she fears she has made a horrible mistake.

Neve is hiding secrets, though. Detective Jess Lambert can tell. Recently back after her own personal tragedy, Jess knows what it's like to live with skeletons in your closet, and she's sure Neve has a few of her own.

When another woman's body is found, Jess and Neve are forced to confront a horrible truth. Because one thing is clear: the darkness of the past is waiting. And the secrets of Black Lake are only just beginning to surface.

Reviews (1)

Publisher's Weekly Review

McDonald (Do No Harm) comes up short in this middling series kickoff, which follows a traumatized small-town detective as she returns to active duty. Jess Lambert remains guilt-ridden almost a year after her young daughter, Isla, died in a car accident because Lambert wasn't sober enough to avoid the deer that jumped in front of their vehicle. Though she's still regularly haunted by visions of Isla, Lambert is determined to show that she belongs in the field by solving the murder of Bailey Nelson, the owner of a property management company in the nearby community of Black Lake. Someone smashed Bailey on the head before injecting her with a sedative, carving an M and four numbers onto her tongue, and dumping her into the lake. Lambert initially suspects Bailey's newest neighbor, Neve Maguire, who just moved to the area from Boston after a trauma involving her own daughter--but Black Lake is overflowing with secrets. Alternating between Lambert and Neve's perspectives generates some suspense, but the big reveal is a letdown, and a few twists along the way will strike readers as unfair. Riley Sager has handled similar plotlines better. Agent: Sharon Pelletier; Dystel, Goderich Literary. (Aug.)