Daughters of the Lake

Kate Granger, the heroine of this well-crafted supernatural thriller from Webb (The Vanishing), retreats to her childhood home on Lake Superior after discovering that her husband has been unfaithful. When Kate’s father finds the body of a woman holding an infant’s corpse on the shore of the lake, Kate is upset because she realizes she has been dreaming for weeks about this unknown woman. As she continues to dream about the dead woman, Kate experiences the events in her dreams as if they were happening to her. In her search for the woman’s identity, Kate unearths a photo of her picnicking with her great-grandparents more than a hundred years before. From newspaper articles of that period, Kate learns the woman is Addie Cassatt, who mysteriously disappeared. Chapters divulging Addie’s tragic love story alternate with events in Kate’s personal life as she seeks to determine why her life is somehow related to Addie’s and why Addie surfaced from the past. Well-delineated characters and a suspenseful plot make this a winner. Agent: Jennifer Weltz, Jean Naggar Literary. (Nov.)