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Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Hannah is excited to spend some time at her best friend Jacob's lake house this summer. A champion swimmer, Hannah is looking forward to doing daily laps and hanging out with Jacob sans parental supervision. The catch? Hannah's annoying new stepsister, Katie, is tagging along. Katie is wild and pretty and seems to have a thing for Jacob. Hannah's not jealous...or is she? To make matters worse, the town they're staying in is sort of creepy. And as...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"In Bledsoe, Georgia during a sticky summer in the mid-2000s, twelve-year-old Kay Whitaker stumbles on a stilt house in the midst of a neighboring swamp, and upon Andy, a boy about her age. Andy and his father Nile Webber have recently moved back to Georgia from California, and rumors about Nile's wife's death have chased them there and back. Andy-tall, unschooled, and living in poverty with Nile-fascinates and enamors Kay. Kay is willful and loud-mouthed...
23) Badwater
Author
Series
Antonio Burns novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Antonio Burns finds one crucial piece of evidence linked to a drowning incident and finds himself drawn to the case despite the costs to his career, his life, or the townspeople who consider him one of their own.
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Description
Pen /Hemingway Award-winning novelist Jane Hamilton follows up her first success, The Book Of Ruth, with this spectacularly haunting drama about a rural American family and a disastrous event that forever changes their lives. Praised by reviewers for its intimate portrayal of the minds of its characters, a novel by the author of The Book of Ruth chronicles one family's decay through guilt and betrayal. Reprint. K. PW.
26) The undrowned
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Samantha and Rachel used to be friends. But then Rachel betrayed Samantha . . . and Samantha decided to make her life a living nightmare. Then one day, Sam and Rachel found themselves in a fight by a lake. Samantha pushed Rachel . . . and watched as Rachel fell back. And back. Into the water. And gone. No way to save her. No way she could be alive. The next day, Rachel shows up to school as if nothing happened. And now she's the one who wants to...
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Pub. Date
[2018].
Description
"Around midnight, three friends take their partying from bar to boat on a misty fall evening. Just as the weather deteriorates, one of them suddenly and confusingly goes overboard. Is it an accident? The result of an unwanted advance? His body disappears quickly, silently, into the dark water. The circumstances are murky, but what is clear is that the other two need to notify the authorities. Minutes become hours become days as they hesitate, caught...
29) Undertow
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
An exhilarating debut novel that follows one woman's hunt for the truth when she realizes she might have married a killer. They said her death was a tragic accident. And I believed them...until now. Carmen is happily married to Tom, although she knows she'll always live in the shadow of another woman-the mistress who ended his first marriage: Zena. Mercurial, mesmerizing, manipulative Zena-a woman who, Carmen begins to discover, had the potential...
30) Black water
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Flattered by the attentions of a senator she has met at a Fourth of July beach party on Grayling Island, Kelly Kelleher accepts a ride from him, taking a first step toward her final confrontation with death.
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Formats
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"As the nineteenth century comes to a close, the illustrious Vanderbilt family dominates Newport, Rhode Island, high society. But when murder darkens a glittering affair at the Vanderbilt summer home, reporter Emma Cross learns that sometimes the actions of the cream of society can curdle one's blood"-- Provided by publisher.
33) Bird Lake moon
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Twelve-year-old Mitch and his mother are spending the summer with his grandparents at Bird Lake after his parents separate, and ten-year-old Spencer and his family have returned to the lake where Spencer's little brother drowned long ago, and as the boys become friends and spend time together, each of them begins to heal.
Author
Pub. Date
c1994
Description
With Death of a River Guide, Richard Flanagan gives us an extraordinary novel as sprawling and compelling as the land and people it describes. Beneath a waterfall on a remote Tasmanian river, Aljaz Cosini is drowning. Beset by visions, he relives not just his own life but that of his family and forebears. He sees his father, Harry, burying his own father, Boy. He sees Boy himself as a young man, and his Auntie Ellie, chased by a cow she believes is...
35) The Stonecutter
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Series
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Continues the story of local detective Patrik Hedström and his girlfriend, Erica Falck, the beloved crime-solving duo whose first child has just been born. But while they celebrate this new life, a suspicious drowning claims a little girl they knew well. As the murders implications widen, Patriks investigation threatens to tear apart the rural fishing village of Fjällbacka, where a secret lurks that spans generations.
36) Lake life
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"The Starling family is scattered across the country. Parents Richard and Lisa live in Ithaca, New York, and work at Cornell University. Their son Michael, a shoe salesman, resides with his elementary school teacher wife, Diane, in Dallas. His brother, Thad, an aspiring poet, makes his home in New York City with his famous painter boyfriend, Jake. But for years they've reunited for vacation each summer at their North Carolina lake house. Now that's...
37) Machine: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Follows a group of teens during a seaside summer and the efforts of a guilt-driven girl to piece together the events that led to a drowning" --
38) Flashback
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Description
If you could relive your childhood, would you? What if you had no choice?
On the thirty-fifth anniversary of his parents' mysterious drowning, Jack Koryan returns to his family beach cottage. During a swim, Jack is attacked by a school of rare jellyfish whose toxic stings put him in a coma for three years.
When he awakens, he finds that the jellyfish toxin has left him with an extraordinary memory that impresses his doctors. This discovery is complicated...
Author
Series
Emma Graham mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
Emma Green finds herself at a resort hotel that is the scene of a series of unsolved murders that may be tied to the forty-year-old "accidental" drowning of a teenage girl.
40) No mark upon her
Author
Series
Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James mysteries volume 14
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
When an Olympic rowing hopeful and detective with the Met is found dead in the Thames, Scotland Yard Superintendent Duncan Kincaid is submerged in a complex case involving ethical issues that put both his career and reputation on the line.