The Secrets of Lake Road by Karen Katchur FIC Kat

This is a debut novel and I look forward to more by this new author.  It is a story of a family that has been dysfunctional because of secrets. Jo was spending the summer at her family's cabin as she did every year.  But one year her life changed for ever.  Her boyfriend, Billie, drowned.  The truth of that death has been haunting Jo ever since.

Now she is back at the lake.  But as she has for years she is dropping her children off to spend the summer at the lake with her mother.  She can never stay there long.  Jo doesn't get along well with her 12-year-old daughter, Caroline, or with her mother.  Her relationship with her son Johnny is better but maybe that is because he is always off with his friends.  As always her husband, Kevin, is off driving a truck.

Jo is itchy to take off when a tragedy occurs.  A young girl, Sara, goes missing from the beach and is presumed drowned.  The locals are anxious to find her body so that they can get back to making money.  In the process of looking for her body they discover an arm bone.  It is sent for a DNA test but everyone is sure that is belongs to Billie since his body was found with a missing arm. Secrets will be revealed!

It was an easy and entertaining read.

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