How a Woman Becomes a Lake

* ''A surefire hit'' Jo Spain * ''Masterful'' Karen Thompson Walker * ''I could not put it down'' Eliza Robertson *

THIS DAY NEVER HAPPENED.
YOU HEAR ME?

By a frozen lake, ten-year-old Jesse waits for his father.
It''s New Year''s Day, and his dad promised a fresh start.
But Jesse messed it all up.
And that''s when he meets the woman.

In the months ahead, the woman''s sudden disappearance sets off a chain of events in Whale Bay, spanning out like fracture lines into the lives of her husband, the detective trying to solve her case, and of Jesse and his family - a young boy cracking like ice under the weight of a terrible secret. How A Woman Becomes a Lake is a chilling literary mystery that asks what happens when we are failed by the ones we love.