Emerald Lake

With the lush atmosphere and timeless appeal of Crawdads, and the suspense of Broken Country, EMERALD LAKE tells the story of one halcyon summer that ends in tragedy, and the ripple effects for one family into the present day.

One summer, one family, and one mystery that ripples through generations…

I turn over stones in my mind, the memories spooking like crayfish. How is it that this has come back to us now, decades later, dredged from the deep, a dark remnant of the summer that began with such golden promise?

It's Thanksgiving and eighty-four-year-old Jane gazes across Emerald Lake as her granddaughters explore the stretch of beachfront – returning to her cottage with an unusual item they've unearthed from the marshes…

Catapulted back to 1955, to a time when she experienced the wonders of first love as well as the heartrending tragedy of her sister’s mysterious death, Jane relives a coming-of-age summer like no other – when secrets lurked as deep and dark as the waters of Emerald Lake….and which continue to haunt her, until the truth finally surfaces.

Utterly captivating and steeped in mystery, lose yourself in Emerald Lake: the brand new novel from the award-winning, multi-million-copy-bestselling author.

'Pitch perfect…. An unputdownable story of greed and murder. Trust me–you won't want to miss this one!' Shari Lapena, internationally bestselling author of Getting Away with Murder

Reviews

'Canadian cottage country in the 1950s. Prose nails the mores and tensions of the time in this dark, unputdownable story of greed and murder. Pitch perfect. Trust me—you won’t want to miss this one!'

Shari Lapena, internationally bestselling author of Getting Away with Murder