Can’t Wait Wednesday: The Deepest Lake!

Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they’re books that have yet to be released.

The Deepest Lake by Andromeda Romano-Lax

Thriller, Standalone

eBook, Hardcover, 384 Pages

May 7, 2024 by Soho Crime

Blurb:

In this atmospheric thriller set at a luxury memoir-writing workshop on the shores of Lake Atitlán, Guatemala, a grieving mother goes undercover to investigate her daughter’s mysterious death.

Rose, the mother of 20-something aspiring writer Jules, has waited three months for answers about her daughter’s death. Why was she swimming alone when she feared the water? Why did she stop texting days before she was last seen? When the official investigation rules the death an accidental drowning, the body possibly lost forever in Central America’s deepest lake, an unsatisfied Rose travels to the memoir workshop herself. She hopes to draw her own conclusion—and find closure.

When Rose arrives, she is swept into the curious world created by her daughter’s literary hero, the famous writing teacher Eva Marshall, a charismatic woman known for her candid—and controversial—memoirs. As Rose uncovers details about the days leading up to Jules’s disappearance, she begins to suspect that this glamorous retreat package is hiding ugly truths. Is Lake Atitlan a place where traumatized women come to heal or a place where deeper injury is inflicted?

Perfect for fans of Delia Owens, Celeste Ng, and Julia Bartz, The Deepest Lake is both a sharp look at the sometimes toxic, exclusionary world of high-class writing workshops and an achingly poignant view of a mother’s grief.

Why I Want To Read This Book:

As an author myself, I love reading books set on writing retreats, especially when things go horribly wrong. Just picture it, you’ve gone somewhere beautiful to enjoy some solitude and soak up inspiration only for a member of the party to die tragically. And then have it be somewhere remote… it just fascinates me. I can picture taking this one on vacation with me next spring.

Will you be checking this one out? What upcoming releases are you looking forward to?