The Dark Lake by Sarah Bailey
Rose was lit by the sun, her beautiful face giving nothing away. Even back then, she was a mystery that I wanted to solve.
The lead homicide investigator in a rural town, Detective Sergeant Gemma Woodstock is deeply unnerved when a high school classmate is found strangled, her body floating in a lake. And not just any classmate, but Rosalind Ryan, whose beauty and inscrutability exerted a magnetic pull on Smithson High School, first during Rosalind’s student years and then again when she returned to teach drama… Read more.
Trigger & Content Warnings:
- Rape mentioned
- Cheating
- Domestic violence mentioned
- Suicide
- Miscarriage
- Murder