Lost Lake

Description

On a summer night in Portland, Oregon, violence erupts at a Little League game -- and attorney Ami Vergano watches in horror as the quiet, gentle artist she recently befriended does the unexpected and unthinkable ...In a cheap motel room in Washington, D.C., Vanessa Kohler -- ex-mental patient, supermarket tabloid reporter, and estranged daughter of a powerful general running for president -- views a news broadcast of the bizarre incident and believes she's found the only witness to a deadly conspiracy. Caught between a possible madwoman and a confessed mass murderer, between reality and delusion, Ami races to unearth the terrible truth about dark events that may or may never have happened twenty years earlier in a secluded cabin on Lost Lake.

Phillip Margolin has written eighteen novels, many of them New York Times bestsellers, including the recent Worthy Brown's Daughter, Sleight of Hand, and the Washington Trilogy. Each displays a unique, compelling insider's view of criminal behavior, which comes from his long background as a criminal defense attorney who has handled thirty murder cases. Winner of the Distinguished Northwest Writer Award, he lives in Portland, Oregon.

"Lively ... the pacing is brisk, the plot cinematic." -- Janet Maslin in the New York Times "A powerhouse thriller...a relentless gripper ... [that] never loses its fiendish hold on the reader's attention." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer "Frighteningly plausible...a page turner." -- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "The suspense [is] high ... surprises keep coming ... a labyrinthine plot built on twists and surprises." -- Publishers Weekly "Delivers the goods, with plenty of action, suspense, and danger." -- Booklist "Margolin's eleventh may be his best, with everything a thriller should have." -- Kirkus Reviews