Favorite Quotes:

People say I married Paul for the money, but that’s just not true. I married him because I love him, and I love him for all the things he provides. A mortgage-free roof over my head and a belly stuffed with nutritious, organic food... And really, when you think about it, isn’t security just another word for love?

Annalee loves drama, and she loves when others share in hers.

Even if she had Paul when she was a teenager, even if she slept hanging upside down by her ankles every night, there’s no way someone her age— I’ve done the math, and the woman is well into her fifties— looks that good, not without a little help. But either her surgeon is really, really good, or somewhere along the line, Diana Keller made a deal with the devil.

As far as I’m concerned, this part of my life is like Vegas: what happened here stays here, hanging from velvet hangers upstairs in the closet.

Money can’t buy happiness or bravery. It can’t save a marriage or bring a drug dealer back from the dead. But in these United States of America, especially here in the South, it can keep a white man out of prison.


My Review:


This cleverly penned mystery kept my attention rapt and my curiosity sharply honed. This was my first experience with the wily Kimberly Belle and it greedily whetted my appetite for more. Her writing was easy to follow, expertly paced, colorfully descriptive, wittily amusing, and engagingly phrased. I was quickly lured into Ms. Belle's intriguing yet somewhat smoky vortex where I couldn’t quite grasp who was trustworthy as this was such a slippery bunch. The ones I thought wouldn’t be actually were, and the ones I had higher aspirations for were rather tepid after all. I had hoped for a different ending as I always crave a romantic HEA, but I can accept the one written just as well.

Charlotte, aka Charlie, finds a drowned Stranger in the Lake in front of her southern Appalachian home. Charlotte is more concerned for her recent husband, Paul. After all, his wife drowned in the same location not too long ago. Even though Paul denies knowing the stranger, Charlotte saw him talking to the dead woman in the street the day before she is found dead. Why is Paul lying? Who is the stranger? Is it just a coincidence that the stranger died by the same method and in the same location as Paul’s wife? Or is something more sinister at work?

I really enjoyed all the twists and turns within Stranger in the Lake. By the conclusion, I didn’t trust anything anyone said. In addition, I didn’t guess the murderer, which is always great fun! Even though most of the characters were unsympathetic, I still enjoyed watching the plot unwind. If you like domestic thrillers, this is a great book with a new twist on the typical plot. 4 stars!

Thanks to Park Row, Harlequin Books and NetGalley for a copy in exchange for my honest review.

cRATING: 4 STARS
2020; Park Row/Harlequin

Stranger the Lake is one of those mysteries that has you reading till the last page. It was hard to put down and forget. One thing that impresses me about Kimberly Belle's novels is that she really knows how to come up with a cool idea and run with it. She takes risks that make me appreciate her writing more. I have mostly rated Belle's novel higher than my last as I have not been able to put the novel down. Like in Dear Wife, this novel does fall apart for me towards the end, but I do understand the motivation to tie things up. I enjoyed hating a few characters, and find a few more endearing, but Paul (Charlie/Charlotte's husband) was just a limp noodle most of the time. Charlie and her brother, Chet, grow as the story does. Chet was one of my favourite characters. When the novel started I was really hoping he would not be the killer, as much as I hoped Paul was. With this novel, I am for sure a fan of Belle's books, and look forward to her future novels, as well exploring her backlist. As summer is fast approaching, and social distancing is still a thing, you might want to add this one to your list of reads.

***I received a complimentary copy of this ebook from the publisher through NetGalley. Opinions expressed in this review are entirely my own.***

This is the third book I have read by Kimberly Belle; I loved her last one “Dear Wife”. It pains me to admit that I had a difficult time getting into this one as the narrative in the beginning was drawn out with the main female protagonist Charlie (aka Charlotte) spending an inordinate amount of time just waiting in her house trying to figure out what was going on with her husband Paul and his friends. Once the story started moving, it got better although I figured out what who the murderer was about halfway through, and accurately anticipated some of the plot twists.

I would have loved to see the characters more developed. The whole story of the friendship among Paul, Jax, and Micah, in my opinion, needed to have been developed more in the flashbacks. And Sam was, regretfully, really underutilized.

It isn’t a bad book; it just left me wanting more from it. Her last book, “Dear Wife”, set a really high bar.

I received an e-galley of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

Kimberly Belle has staked out a claim writing domestic thrillers about troubled marriages, and her latest, Stranger in the Lake, fits that category well.



We meet Charlotte as she is heading to her husband's architecture office where she also works. Charlotte married Paul a few years after his first wife was found drowned under the dock next to their gleaming mansion.



Paul loved Katherine, but people in the small resort town gossiped that he must have had something to do with her death; after all, she was a competitive swimmer. How could she drown so close to the dock?



Charlotte is eleven years younger than Paul, and she comes from the "wrong side of town", having grown up in the trailer park. Her father was in prison, and her mother was a drug addict who neglected Charlotte and her younger brother Chet.



People (including Paul's mother) also gossiped about "gold digger" Charlotte, digging her claws into the wealthy widower Paul. But Paul and Charlotte were in love, and hoped to start to a family soon.



After seeing Paul talking to a strange woman in town, Charlotte finds the woman's body the next day drowned under their dock. Two drowned women under his dock doesn't look good for Paul, and when he tells Charlotte that he must go away for three days after he lies to the police about meeting the dead woman, things go from bad to worse.



There are a lot of twists and turns in the story, and something that happened in Paul's past may have come back to haunt him. Back in high school, Paul was best friends with Jax and Micah, now Paul's neighbor. Jax went off the grid years ago, living in the woods, and Paul has helped him over the years by giving him money and clothes.



Did Paul kill the woman? Does he think Jax killed the woman, as the police suspect? Now that Charlotte has lied to the police to cover up for Paul's lie, she is determined to get to the truth.



Clever readers may be able to follow the breadcrumb clues as to who killed the woman, but there are so many layers to the book, the underlying elements to the story will keep the reader guessing why. Fans of books like The Girl on the Train and Gone Girl will want to add Stranger in the Lake to their summer reading list.



Thanks to Harlequin for putting me on their Summer Reads Blog Tour.

This is a slow burn book that kept me hooked till the last page.
I liked how the author build the suspense, the small town atmosphere and the great cast of characters.
The mystery is solid and kept me guessing.
I recommend it.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.

Stranger in the Lake is an atmospheric mystery set in the picturesque little town of Lake Crosby, North Carolina, part of the Appalachian mountains. Author Kimberly Belle says she set it on a lake because there is "something about a big body of water -- the dark swirling currents, the beautiful but remote setting. . . . It’s the perfect place to set a suspenseful story because you just know something bad is going to happen there." Indeed, a lot of bad things happen in Lake Crosby, where mansions set on the lake stand in contrast to the other part of town in which Belle's protagonist, Charlotte, and her younger brother, Chet, were raised by a neglectful, drug-addicted mother in a rundown trailer park. Belle explores what happens when a woman marries a man whose wealth and social status greatly exceed her own. And when he is suspected of murder, and evidence increasingly points to his guilt, what role does her improved lifestyle and fear of losing it impact her and her willingness to stand by her husband.

As the story opens, Charlotte Keller has just discovered she is pregnant and is contemplating how to tell her husband, Paul, a successful architect eleven years her senior. She is confident Paul's mother and other locals will be convinced that she cleverly planned the pregnancy in order to trap Paul and cement her place in his wealthy and powerful family. Charlotte and Paul have only been married a year or so, after having met when he patronized the convenience store where she worked. Many people in the little town still believe that Paul had something to do with the death of his first wife, Katherine, four years ago. They lived in the showplace home on the lake that Charlotte now shares with him. Katherine, a former competitive swimmer, drowned in the lake during a routine morning swim.

The morning after Charlotte goes to Paul's office to pick him up and finds him chatting with a young woman she has never seen before, Charlotte discovers that woman's body under the boat dock that fronts their lakeside home. The night before, Charlotte and Paul celebrated her pregnancy and when Charlotte work up a little after 6:00 a.m., Paul was already gone, presumably for his morning run. When Paul finally returns, Charlotte has alerted the authorities, including their next door neighbor, Micah, Paul's lifelong friend and son of the police chief. Micah is a well-known diver who specializes in underwater investigations and evidence recovery. Charlotte is shocked when Paul denies ever having seen the deceased woman before. And from there, the mysteries within mysteries that Belle weaves into her tautly-constructed tale are revealed at an unrelenting pace.

Charlotte also saw Jax the previous day when she went to meet Paul. Jax, like Micah, is one of Paul's oldest friends. But many years ago, he dropped out of society and began living deep in the woods. He is well-known to Lake Crosby residents, most of whom write him off as mentally disturbed. But he told Charlotte he needed to speak with Paul, who takes off into the woods to find him, leaving Charlotte alone and wondering why she endorsed Paul's lie. Like him, she told the police she did not recognize the dead woman. Charlotte is unnerved by her own dishonesty and contemplates confessing the truth to Sam Kinkaid, the police officer who used to be her good friend. He warned Charlotte not to marry Paul. Charlotte wonders what Paul would do if she recanted. Would he stand by her? Or abandon her and their unborn child?

Charlotte loves Paul, believes that he loves her, and wants her marriage to survive. However, there are so many unanswered questions that she simply cannot ignore. Despite the way in which she grew up -- largely responsible for raising Chet because her mother left them physically and emotionally alone -- Charlotte has a strong sense of right and wrong, and now she has her own baby to consider and provide for. She loathes the idea of being a single mother, forced to support herself and her child working a dead-end job, living back on the other side of Lake Crosby's literal and figurative tracks. But she cannot continue her life with Paul until she knows the truth, in part because she perceives that she might be in danger.

Belle relates Charlotte's internal struggle via a compelling first-person narrative detailing her doubts and the clues she follows in her quest for answers. Paul has not been entirely forthcoming with her about everything. In fact, he has lied to her about several things. Charlotte wonders what else he has lied about and how those lied bode for their future together, as well as their unborn child's future. Could Paul have been lying all the times he insisted that he loved Katherine and did not harm her?

Belle injects a third-person narrative describing events that transpired in June 1999. Jax was mourning his mother, who died from ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease), and trying to stay away from his once-happy home and family. His sister, Pamela, became obsessed with the healing power of prayer but, as predicted, it didn't work and his mother's life was not spared. Paul and Micah convince Jax that if they can't find a party in town that night, they will make their own. But what really happened that evening? In subsequent flashbacks, Belle gradually reveals the whole story and why the three men remain bound to each other. Those revelations enable Belle's readers to journey with Charlotte to the whole, shocking truth.

Along the way, Charlotte proves to be an empathetic and savvy character. Belle ramps up the tension until the secrets that Paul, Jax, and Micah have been keeping for more than two decades are revealed. But then Belle cleverly wrings even more intrigue out of her multi-layered and slyly nuanced thriller.

Stranger in the Lake is replete with characters whose lives are intricately and inextricably connected by secrets that, were it not for one random occurrence, would have remained buried forever. It's a smartly-told, engrossing story featuring a protagonist who rises above the circumstances of her birth and childhood. At the outset, to the residents of Lake Crosby, she appears to have done so by marrying a rich man. But by the end of the story, Belle demonstrates that she has actually done so through her own integrity, ingenuity, resilience, and determination. Charlotte fearlessly seeks the truth, no matter the toll on her marriage.

Stranger in the Lake further cements Belle as a master storyteller who consistently delivers gripping, entertaining thrillers featuring strong female protagonists.

I had some serious trust issues with many of the characters. I really couldn’t quite get a handle on whether they were telling the truth throughout the dialogue. The pacing was excellent and most of the characters were appealing… until they were not. There were flashbacks that drew an interesting comparison between personalities as teens vs. who they grew up to be. I had niggling doubts (those trust issues, again) because I couldn’t determine who was lying and being true to their character.

The author did a wonderful job of conveying Charlotte’s thoughts, feelings, and perceptions. Her voice and the threads throughout the novel made me more and more curious throughout. There was a lot of convenient scenarios that had me arguing with myself about whether it was too convenient or just a matter of luck and I think that speaks well to the author keeping things muddy enough to keep the reader interested. Again, it was not a fast paced thriller, but it had me going “hmmmm…” more than once and through in some unforeseen twists and turns.

Originally shared on my blog as part of the Harlequin 2020 Summer Reads Blog Tour. My thanks to the punisher for the complimentary copy for review. All opinions expressed are my own.

Secrets can be destructive in so many ways, as we learn in Kimberly Belle's new thriller, Stranger in the Lake.

When gas station cashier Charlotte married the wealthy, older widower Paul, it caused a great deal of gossip in their small town. Many thought she was just after his money, and some still think he killed his first wife a few years ago. But they are happier than anyone really knows.

One morning she finds a young woman’s body floating in the lake behind their house. Shockingly, it’s the same place where Paul’s first wife’s body was found. And when they pull the woman’s body out of the lake, why did Paul lie to the police that he’d never seen her, when Charlotte saw them talking just the day before?

As Paul goes away to “handle” some things, Charlotte is left to wonder if the man she married is hiding more secrets from her, or if he’s the good man she believes him to be. But question after question keeps popping up.

Is she at risk? Is Paul a killer? Who was this woman that was found in the lake? Charlotte is determined to find the answers even if she might not like them.

I don’t read a ton of thrillers anymore because I got tired of guessing what was going to happen within the first 50 pages. That’s what happened here, although there were lots of twists and turns along the way.

The narration fluctuated between the present and 20 years earlier, with Paul and his two best friends. But the flashbacks expose a coincidence that made me roll my eyes a little.

There should be a moratorium on books where there’s a secret that everyone but the protagonist knows, and when they bring it up they’re told they wouldn’t understand or they don’t need to know.

I know some have enjoyed this book, and lots of you are huge thriller fans, so don’t let my nit-picking dissuade you! I will say that I couldn’t stop reading!

I was pleased to be part of the blog tour for this book. NetGalley and Park Row Books provided me a complimentary copy of the book in exchange for an unbiased review. Thanks for making this available!!

I can’t believe this is my first book by Kimberly Belle!! What have I been waiting for?! This book was just too good. I love a good small town mystery and this certainly delivered. I loved how it alternated between past (Jax’s POV) and present (Charlotte’s POV). It really helped piece things together and figure out how everyone is ultimately connected. The pace was really great.. the suspense just keeps building and building until the very last few pages. I was shocked by who ended up being involved with all the deaths.. I really did not see one person in particular being the culprit. With it’s lake side atmosphere this is sure to be one of the biggest thrillers to read this summer! Highly recommend giving this one a read. Thank you to @parkrowbooks for the ARC to read and review. ⠀

Charlotte's life has never been an easy one. She struggled and worked for everything that she had, and it was never enough. But fate introduced Paul into her life and everything changed for the better.

Paul is older, widowed, and insanely rich. And much of their small town has judged young Charlotte for their marriage. But Charlotte and Paul are in love and their relationship is a good one. And now they're expecting. But on the morning after Charlotte tells Paul the good news, she discovers a dead body floating under their dock.

Paul isn't home when it happens but Charlotte recognizes the woman as one she saw Paul talking to just one day prior. But when Paul is questioned by the police he says he has no idea who the woman is. He then immediately sets off to find his friend Jax, the town's local eccentric, leaving Charlotte to deal with further questions and the investigation.

Charlotte isn't sure why Paul lied about the woman. She also isn't sure what caused him to run to seek out Jax. But she knows that she has to protect him at all cost. Because when Paul's former wife died, it was in the very same lake. And Paul was a prime suspect.

Kimberly Belle's latest is a great suspense story that builds fabulously until the final reveal!

Charlotte, as she likes to be called (only her brother is allowed to call her Charlie), is immediately likable. The book begins with her setting off in their boat to pick Paul up from work. The weather is cold and dreary and her old beater can't really make treacherous road conditions. And Paul's car has been taken to the shop for last minute repairs. And it's all of this that leads to her finding a body.

The following morning, she realizes that in her rush to get inside after telling Paul about the baby, she left her phone and some important documents in the boat.

Paul is out on a run and the weather is threatening to get worse, so she can't wait for him to trek down to the dock to do it. And boy what a surprise she finds waiting for her!

Charlotte is definitely planning to stand by her man but as the book continues even she begins to have doubts. Two women found in the same spot? Add to that Paul's definitely skirting of the truth when it comes to the latest body. But she knows her husband. He's a good man. He'd been broken up for so long about the death of his wife and this woman is a stranger, regardless of the fact that she saw her husband talking to her just the day before. Surely he can't have had anything to do with it?

Stranger in the Lake isn't quite a slow burn but it's definitely more suspense than a faster-paced thriller. And this gives the reader a chance to really get to know Charlotte, Paul, Chet (Charlotte's brother), and even Paul's group of friends.

I quite enjoyed this latest outing from Belle! It proved to be a perfect escape and an excellent hammock read!

Charlotte comes from a trailer park and dysfunctional family. Then she meets Paul who is wealthy. There was a lot of gossip about them in town but they are happy. Then one morning she finds a dead woman floating under their dock. Paul isn't home and it's where his first wife drowned.
The stranger is actually a woman Charlotte saw him talking to the day before.
More things come to light and Charlotte doesn't know if she can trust Paul.
We know he has been keeping secrets and her former best friend is a cop and doesn't like Paul. Paul's best friend is there all the time to help.
I had a feeling what happened and who did it. There was more to what the eye saw and more to these characters than you know.
Thanks to Harlequin and NetGalley for the ARC.

OK so I LOVED Belle's last novel Dear Wife. So I was ecstatic to get an early copy of her newest novel.

Unfortunately, this one didn't have the same spark for me as her last novel. I wonder if it's me? Did I have such high hopes and just wasn't up to my expectations? ughhh!

The plot and premise of the book sounded so fascinating but I just felt it couldn't ever quite grab me and caught myself skimming some of the book to just get to the end since it was dragging quite a bit for me. I was bored at times... which is never a good sign for me. Of course, I will definitely be checking out Belle's next novel!

If you enjoy more of a slow burn thriller with a detective aspect, then this one is definitely one to grab for your shelves!!

Overall, 3 stars

Thank you to Park Row books and Netgalley for the arc in exchange for an honest review.

Pub date: 6/9/20
Published to GR: 6/14/20

Kimberley Belle had me gripped from the start of this novel, she did an excellent job of weaving the air of mystery into the opening chapters. Even before the stranger was found in the lake I knew something was “up” with the main characters and things weren’t as they seemed in Lake Crosby, though I can say I didn’t see the ending coming!

STRANGER IN THE LAKE is my first read by Kimberly Belle and whoa… what a ride. This one was so full of secrets and twists I found myself coming back to it every second I could, trying to unravel the secrets and figure out how another woman ended up drowned under Paul’s dock. Charlotte was both worldly and naïve and I found myself rooting for her, if not necessarily for her relationship with Paul.
Belle brought well-developed characters into a story that had me hanging onto my seat. There were plenty of surprises in this one, including the ending. This was my first novel by Belle, and I keep wondering what took me so long to discover her writing!
Thanks to the Publisher and NetGalley for an advanced copy of this novel. All opinions are my own.
#StrangerintheLake #KimberlyBelle #ParkRow

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I have never read this author before but I enjoyed the story. I will probably read her again.

In this story, Charlotte falls in love with a man the town suspects killed his wife but of course Charlotte does not believe it. But when another body is found at the same location as Paul’s wife Charlotte begins to wonder.

I thought the story was well written but I never really got into the story completely. Meaning I enjoyed the story but it didn’t drag me in as some books do. Well, maybe it did. To slap Charlotte a time or two. But other than that I just wanted to read it and see what happened.

I can see how this would not be everyone’s cup of tea but I think it was a solid read.

Disclaimer:
I received a complimentary copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.

Stranger in the Lake was just a bit underwhelming to me and it really pains me to say that because I have loved every book Kimberly Belle has written. This one was just a bit slow paced for me and although it started strong it seemed to drag a bit for me and it took me entirely too long to finish. I am still a huge fan of Belle's writing and will look forward to what she publishes -but Dear Wife remains my favorite Belle book!

Disclaimer: I received this e-book from the publisher and netgalley. Thanks! All opinions are my own.

Book: Stranger in the Lake

Author: Kimberly Belle

Book Series: Standalone

Rating: 3/5

Recommended For...: Thrill Seekers

Publication Date: June 9, 2020

Genre: Thriller

Recommended Age: 18+ (death, violence, language, gore, sexual content)

Publisher: Park Row

Pages: 352

Synopsis: When Charlotte married the wealthy widower Paul, it caused a ripple of gossip in their small lakeside town. They have a charmed life together, despite the cruel whispers about her humble past and his first marriage. But everything starts to unravel when she discovers a young woman’s body floating in the exact same spot where Paul’s first wife tragically drowned.

At first, it seems like a horrific coincidence, but the stranger in the lake is no stranger. Charlotte saw Paul talking to her the day before, even though Paul tells the police he’s never met the woman. His lie exposes cracks in their fragile new marriage, cracks Charlotte is determined to keep from breaking them in two.

As Charlotte uncovers dark mysteries about the man she married, she doesn’t know what to trust—her heart, which knows Paul to be a good man, or her growing suspicion that there’s something he’s hiding in the water.

Review: For the most part this book was good. The book had great writing and the plot was intriguing. The book also had great world building.

However, I really couldn’t get into this book. The character development wasn’t there for me and the plot, while good, felt like others I’ve read previously.

Verdict: It was ok, but not my fave.

4.5 Stars: Stranger in the Lake is a mystery, domestic thriller, family story, that had me quickly turning the pages to find out what happened and who was responsible. This was a spooky, atmospheric story. The setting of isolation living on the hill overlooking manmade Lake Crosby with it's wintry, snowy, stormy and cold, sets the stage for finding the body of a woman floating in the lake under the dock belonging to Paul and his second wife Charlotte, aka Charlie. This is the second body to wash up in the same place, the first, Paul's first wife. Who is the stranger in the lake? Who killed her? Does this have anything to do with Katherine's drowning?

Charlotte has been married to rich and handsome Paul for 14 months. She grew up in a trailer, born of a father who ended up in prison and a drug addicted mother. Raising her younger brother, Chet, she falls in love with Paul and the sense of security that he brings to her life. When she begins to suspect her husband of lying to her, or perhaps being responsible for the death of his wife or the stranger, she turns to Chet, and family friend Micah, to help her sort things out. Can she remain with a man who has been hiding things from her all this time?

This book was more of a mystery to me than a thriller. That is not to say there were not suspenseful and thrilling aspects to the story, because there were. I loved Charlotte's character, especially watching her growth from an insecure wife of a millionaire to a strong and self-sufficient woman. She took a lot of chances to find out what was really going on, but needed to do that for her own mental and emotional well-being. As she and Chet began to unravel the secrets, I could sense the evil underlying these crimes. I figured out part of what had happened before the actual reveal, but there were still some twists and plotlines that needed to be sorted out. Kimberly Belle did a good job taking these loose ends and neatly weaving a tale that had me on the edge of my seat. The final twist, had me smiling and nodding. What a great ending to this twisted and convoluted story. Nothing was too far out or unbelievable, which sometimes happens in thrillers. This was a well-written, well-paced, well-plotted story driven by a well-developed character, Charlotte. Well done Kimberly Belle.

A masterfully written domestic thriller that is chillingly atmospheric and spine-tinglingly creepy, Kimberly Belle’s Stranger in the Lake is a nail-biting page-turner from a writer at the very top of her game.

The rumor mill of Lake Crosby went into overdrive when wealthy widower Paul announced that he was marrying Charlotte. Not only did the two newlyweds come from completely different worlds, but the truth about what really happened to Paul’s ex wife has always been shrouded in secrecy that has led to an array of malicious gossip to be bandied about around town. Despite the fact that their marriage seems to be on everybody’s lips, Charlotte and Paul will pay no heed to the gossip and as they settle into married life, they start counting their blessings at how lucky they are to have found each other and to living a charmed life most people would envy. However, it quickly becomes apparent that not everything is rosy between the two of them – a fact that is compounded by the fact that Charlotte discovers the body of a young woman in the same place Paul’s first wife tragically drowned. Is this a coincidence? Or is there something far more sinister going on here?

Paul tells the police that he has never clapped eyes on the woman in the lake. Yet, Charlotte knows that this is a lie because she had seen him talking to her the previous day. What is her husband hiding from her? And why did he lie to the police? Was it self-preservation? Or is Paul connected to this second shocking death in the lake? Cracks have been exposed in this marriage. Cracks that could threaten to tear them apart. Charlotte is not about to give up on her husband or their marriage – even if with each passing day she begins to wonder who is this stranger she married.

Charlotte will not rest until she gets to the heart of this mystery that has plagued her marriage. She believes that Paul is a good man, but if she wants to save their marriage then he needs to let her in and reveal to her the secrets hiding in the lake. But is she ready for what he is about to tell her? Or is she better off not knowing?

In the grand tradition of Daphne DuMaurier’s classic Rebecca, Kimberly Belle’s Stranger in the Lake is a chilling tale of toxic secrets, old ghosts and present danger that will send shiver after shiver scuttling down readers’ spines. Kimberly Belle has written a superb thriller that is captivating, compelling and impossible to put down.

A fantastic tale where nothing is as it initially seems, jaws will drop and hearts are sure to pound in Kimberly Belle’s mesmerizing new novel, Stranger in the Lake.