Synopses & Reviews
It's a beautiful summer night in Portland, Oregon. Ami Vergano, a young attorney and single mother, arrives at her son Ryan's Little League game with their tenant and new friend, Dan Morelli. Before the game ends, Ami witnesses violence that shocks and horrifies her and makes her question everything she thought she knew about Morelli.
On the other side of the continent, ex-mental patient Vanessa Kohler watches a piece on television about the Little League massacre and quickly places a call to the FBI. For years she's been telling everyone about a vast government conspiracy to conceal a secret military unit headed by Gen. Morris Wingate, and everyone has dismissed her stories. But what she sees on television could prove her theories true.
Vanessa hires Ami Vergano to represent Morelli, and Ami is drawn into Vanessa's paranoid world. Are Vanessa, a former mental patient, and Morelli, a confessed mass murderer, telling the truth about one of the nation's most respected soldiers and politicians? Ami has to decide who and what to believe, in Phillip Margolin's most exciting and surprising thriller since his breakout bestseller, Gone, but Not Forgotten.
Review
"Margolin takes a few liberties with his fiction....Nevertheless, Lost Lake is a fun ride, and I'm sure Vince Kohler's spirit would delight in his namesake." Oregonian
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"The characters enthrall, the plot twists surprise, the pages fly by. This is a thriller with thrills galore." Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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"Margolin's tenth may be his best, with everything a thriller should have." Kirkus Reviews
Synopsis
On a summer night in Portland, Oregon, violence erupts at a Little League game -- and attorney Ami Vergano watches in horror as the quiet, gentle artist she recently befriended does the unexpected and unthinkable . . .
In a cheap motel room in Washington, D.C., Vanessa Kohler -- ex-mental patient, supermarket tabloid reporter, and estranged daughter of a powerful general running for president -- views a news broadcast of the bizarre incident and believes she's found the only witness to a deadly conspiracy.
Caught between a possible madwoman and a confessed mass murderer, between reality and delusion, Ami races to unearth the terrible truth about dark events that may or may never have happened twenty years earlier in a secluded cabin on Lost Lake.
About the Author
Phillip Margolin has written more than a dozen
New York Times bestselling mysteries for adults, including
Gone, But Not Forgotten;
Executive Privilege; and
Wild Justice. With
Vanishing Acts, he is achieving two new firstshis first book for young readers and his first book with his daughter, Ami Margolin Rome.
Ami Margolin Rome works in education philanthropy and is a former Peace Corps volunteer. Like Madison, Ami grew up in Portland, Oregon, with a criminal defense attorney for a father. She still lives in Portland today, near her father.