The Angel of Indian Lake

The final, pulse-pounding chapter in Jones’s “Indian Lake” trilogy picks up in October 2023, four years after the events of Don’t Fear the Reaper. After being released from prison, Jade Daniels, a devotee of the slasher genre, returns to her hometown of Proofrock, ID. Much like Jade, the townspeople are trying to heal from the events of the last book, but the horrors beneath the lake’s surface are rising from the depths, and Jade must make her final stand to stop the evil once and for all. Jones’s story uses his encyclopedic knowledge of the slasher movie by dropping several bloody Easter eggs while digging deep into the effects of generational trauma most slashers avoid. Battle-tested through the last two books, Jade emerges as a woman who is brave but fearful and broken, although not yet shattered. A full cast of brilliant narrators portrays characters that listeners will perceive as real, making the wounds these characters receive, especially the fatal ones, cut deep.