Lost Lake by Phillip Margolin

Lost Lake

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Phillip Margolin

HarperCollins · Ebook · April 29, 2008

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 . . .

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Who it’s for
A sharp, brisk crime read with legal heat and procedural pressure.
Genres
Legal Thrillers, Suspense, Psychological Thrillers
Published
HarperCollins, April 29, 2008

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About this book

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 . . .

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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.

Sharp and Suspenseful

A sharp, brisk crime read with legal heat and procedural pressure.

Come here for

  • crime with legal and police-plot tension
  • lean, suspense-first pacing

Expect

  • murder and political undertones
  • straight-ahead, page-moving suspense

Where it sits

Legal Thrillers95%
Suspense29%
Psychological Thrillers27%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Contemporary Fantasy
  • Paranormal Fantasy
  • Literary Fiction
  • Psychological Fiction
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  • Contemporary Romance
  • Romantic Suspense
  • Sci-Fi Romance
  • Alien Contact
Authors
Phillip Margolin
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published
April 29, 2008
Format
Ebook
Reading lane
Contemporary Fantasy