From the Bookshelf of Tyler Public Library…

[close] Kate Morton is one of my favorite authors. Her novels always seem to include a huge, old house, filled with mysteries. In The Lake House, Morton revisits the scene of a kidnapping that took place on a Cornwall lake district manor house, during the 1930’s. The novel flashes back to the time of the crime when Alice Edivane, now a famous mystery author, was a young teen. Theo Edivane, her baby brother, went missing on the evening of the family’s annual midsummer’s eve party. While there were numerous suspects, the crime has remained unsolved for decades, until a young detective, Sadie Sparrow, stumbles across the vacated estate and becomes obsessed with the case.

Morton reminds me of the Daphne DuMaurier novels I read as a teen. They are exactly the kind of book you fall in to and if left uninterrupted, may read from start to finish, in one long, preferably rainy, weekend. I think the Lake House is one of Morton’s best, but please don’t take my word for it…read them all for yourself!