![]() ![]() The book gave me a few surprises.Įmily's fiancé dies a week before the wedding. ![]() There are spies, secrets, and the ongoing conflict between France and England. But slowly things fall into place and they find what they want.Īs for the suspense. It's not easy, it's hard, almost impossible. But I am not gonna be totally evil because she changes, there is romance there after all.Īngus, aSure he too had made mistakes before, but how he adored her.Īs you can see they really really have to work for the love to grow. Yes I confess that at one time I wish Angus had throw that ungrateful strumpet out on the street to fend for herself. I get why she was like that, but she lived in a time where she had no rights so at least be civil to your husband and not a shrew. The heroine, oh Emily, you were hard to like you ungrateful idiot. Also with a dose of mystery, spies and suspense. How to describe this one? It was not one of those typical historical romances and therefor I would not want to call it that. ![]()
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Called One of the Best Crime Novels of the Year by New York Times * NPR * New York Post * Washington Post * Buzzfeed * South Florida Sun-Sentinel * Library Journal * CrimeReadsįrom the award-winning author of All Her Little Secrets comes yet another gripping, suspenseful novel where, after the murder of a white man in Jim Crow Mississippi, two Black sisters run away to different parts of the country. ![]() ![]() Ingram weaves a complex tale, filled with surprising twists and turns. I had a feeling I was going to like The Thing from the Lake when I discovered that every chapter started with a relevant quote pulled from the classics of the western canon, and I was right. What is the thing in the lake? Who is this woman? Can Roger defeat the dark force thereby returning himself and his cousins to their idyllic lifestyle? His visits quickly turn sinister, though, as a dark force based in the lake comes at night to threaten Roger away from the woman. 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