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The Lake House

by Kate Morton
18 CDs. 21 hrs. Brilliance. 2015. ISBN 9781489019936. $64.97. F
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Retreating to Cornwall to pass an enforced leave from the London Metropolitan Police, Det. Constable Sadie Sparrow stumbles upon an estate abandoned 70 years ago after a toddler went missing. As Sadie applies her detecting skills to solve the cold case, three generations of family secrets are unraveled, rebounding from the horrors of World War I to the 1930s and then on to the present day. Morton's (The House at Riverton) plotting and characterizations keep the novel racing along, and Caroline Lee's narration unobtrusively travels through time and inhabits characters of multiple generations and sexes.
VERDICT Lovers of mysteries, family sagas, and love stories will find this novel engrossing. ["Morton can consistently build intriguing stories with a familiar set of tools: family secrets, forgotten mansions, and troubled modern-day meddlers": LJ Xpress Reviews 12/18/15 starred review of the Atria hc.]
Reviewed by Judith Robinson, Dept. of Lib. & Information Studies, Univ. at Buffalo , Feb 01, 2016
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