Every Lake

When Alice was fifteen, her father killed Mia Heywood in their lakefront cottage before vanishing into the trees.
At least that's what the locals think happened.
More than a decade later, Alice has lost her job as a journalist, she's going through an expensive divorce and she desperately needs to sell the boarded-up 'murder house'.
But before she can do that, she has to find out what really happened.
Tall Pines still has its secrets - the postcard-perfect Otago landscape hides a deep divide between the residents and the rich holiday homeowners. She learns that more than one crime is being covered up and alibis are veil-thin.
One dead girl is a tragedy, a second cannot be a coincidence.
There are rumours that Alice's father still lives hidden in the trees surrounding the lake, and the closer she gets to the truth the more deadly the situation becomes.
With a darkly funny heroine, a gripping thriller about small town lies - where everyone is a suspect, right until the end.
Paperback.