Killing Chrissy Carmichael

When the body of Silver Bay's golden girl Chrissy Carmichael's washes up on the lakefront, long buried secrets begin to worm their way to the surface... and the discovery of her lost diary becomes the catalyst for everything to change.

Cleo Williams needs a break. An escape. A chance to distance herself from her most recent mess. So when she learns her aunt's Silver Bay cottage will be vacant all summer, she immediately packs her bags. Finally, a chance to relax and regroup and figure out how to get her life on track. But soon after she arrives, Cleo is reminded of the awful night that sent her scrambling home eight years ago, and of the ugliness that can hide behind idyllic veneers. Cleo tries to shroud herself in her aunt's life, to shield herself from her creeping failure, but she's out of options and thinks she'll have to crawl back to the scratchy turmoil of her family home, defeated. Until she stumbles across Chrissy Carmichael's diary. Reluctant to revisit the Silver Bay police station, Cleo turns to the one Carmichael she's willing to trust: Chrissy's beguiling older brother Blair.

Blair presents Cleo with an offer she can't refuse.

Meanwhile, the Romano and Mackie families have converged at their shared lake house as they've done many summers before, but this year is different. As family tensions grow, Dylan Romano finds himself stepping into new shoes. Challenging his father, watching over his sister, and falling in love… all the while becoming entangled in a murder investigation.

And Chief Reggie Michaels, finally realizing he needs to free himself from his self-made cage, is being haunted by an old death and wonders how it might be connected to recent events.

As the past collides with the present, one body becomes two.

Is there a killer in this supposedly sleepy town? And who might be next?

"Immersive atmosphere" and "deliciously flawed characters".

"Unpredictable."

A multi-POV story that will keep you guessing.

**Note, this title was previously published as The Drowning by Margot D'Archer.