Lost Lake

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

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.