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The Lakehouse

by Joe Clifford
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After being cleared of his wife's murder, Todd Norman returns to her small Connecticut hometown in order to finish building their dream house by the lake. He is eager to restart his life and cast aside any remaining suspicious...but all of that is dashed when a young woman's body washes up on the beach next door. When Tracy Somerset, divorced mother from the small town of Covenant, CT, meets a handsome stranger in a midnight Wal-Mart, she has no idea she is speaking with Todd Norman, the former Wall Street financier dubbed "The Banker Butcher" by the New York tabloids. The following morning, on the beach by Norman's back-under-construction lakehouse, another young woman's body is discovered. Sheriff Duane Sobczak's investigation leads him to town psychiatrist Dr. Meshulum Bakshir, whose position at a troubled girls' group home a decade ago yields disturbing ties to several local, prominent players, including a radical preacher, a disgraced politician, a down-and-out PI—and Sobczak's own daughter. Unfolding over the course of New England's distinct four seasons, The Lakehouse is a domestic psychological thriller about the wayward and marginalized, the lies we tell those closest to us, and the price of forbidden love in an insular community where it seems everyone has a story to tell—and a past they prefer stay buried.

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    September 29, 2020

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      • ISBN: 9781951709327

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      • ISBN: 9781951709327
      • File size: 334 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      August 3, 2020
      In this gripping crime novel from Thriller Award finalist Clifford (The One That Got Away), Dwayne Sobczak, the police chief of Covenant, Conn., is sure trouble will follow the return to town of former Wall Street financier Greg Norman, who’s building his dream house on the lake after being cleared of killing his wife. Sure enough, a woman’s body soon turns up on the beach near Greg’s house. Even after detectives from the larger and better equipped Holland County PD declare the death the result of an overdose, Sobczak remains convinced of Greg’s guilt. Single mom Tracy Sommers, with whom Greg had a chance meeting at the local Walmart that led to a two-hour conversation over coffee, provides an alibi, but Sobczak persists. Eventually, the town psychiatrist, who was once connected with a group home for troubled girls, provides Sobczak with leads that put him on the path to the ugly and frightening truth. Clifford does a good job depicting the police chief’s growing disillusionment with what was once “his quiet, wholesome town.” Fans of grittier crime fiction will be satisfied. Agent: James McGowan, BookEnds Literary.

    • Library Journal

      September 4, 2020

      When the naked body of a woman is found on the lakeshore near where Todd Norman has resumed building the house he began five years before, Sheriff Dwayne Sobcszak is convinced Todd is guilty. So are most of the residents of Covenant, CT, because five years earlier, Todd was acquitted of the murder of his wife, April Abbott, a local woman. Tracy Somerset, a single mom, meets Todd and falls for him before learning of his past. It turns out that the dead woman and April, plus two others who are now missing, had been at the same group shelter for teens some 14 years before. Local psychiatrist Dr. Meshulum Bakshir administered that home and he now has also disappeared. Todd's house is torched, and he and Tracy find themselves captives of a person who is crazed with keeping things hidden. VERDICT Clifford's ("Jay Porter" series) sixth stand-alone (after Occam's Razor) captivates with pell-mell action, striking characters, and a tantalizingly complex plot, yet at times is also melodramatic with shifting perspectives, cliff-hanging chapter endings, and ultimately an enigmatic finish.--Roland Person, formerly with Southern Illinois Univ. Lib., Carbondale

      Copyright 2020 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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