Dark Lake (Dark Lake: An Allie Armington Mystery)

Summer at the Lake just isn’t what it used to be. This year, it’s murder. After 15 years, Allie Armington returns to her aunt Sallie’s idyllic cottage retreat in the Adirondacks where she spent most of her childhood summers. Until the accident, that is. But instead of the happy reunion she’s anticipating, she finds Sallie’s mangled body.

The close-knit community of July 4th to Labor Day residents at the Hotanawa compound tries to portray the tragedy as a suicide to keep things out of the news. Allie knows better. There’s been foul play, yet the cops have all but closed the case.

To clear her aunt’s reputation, Allie’s got to navigate her way around a compromised police department, wealthy neighbors with agendas, a cousin who’s turned into a meth

head, and a drug conspiracy that just gets stranger and stranger—especially since the handsome drug cop is an ally in one moment and a suspected conspirator the next.

Populated with neighbors you love to hate, childhood ex-crushes you’d hate to love, and family and friends who promote more problems than solutions, Dark Lake brings us an up close look at summer life in the Adirondacks and Allie at her best.