Synopsis:
Don’t rent a summer house in Hollow’s Bend this year! Patterson’s scariest thrills since Death of the Black Widow.
 
Hollows Bend, New Hampshire, is a picture-perfect New England town where weekend tourists flock to see fall leaves and eat breakfast at the Stairway Diner. The crime rate—zero–is a point of pride for Sheriff Ellie Pritchett.
 
The day the stranger shows up is when the trouble starts. The sheriff and her deputy investigate the mysterious teenage girl. None of the locals can place her. She can’t—or won’t answer any questions. She won’t even tell them her name. 
 
While the girl is in protective custody, the officers are called to multiple crime scenes leading them closer and closer to a lake outside of town that doesn’t appear on any map…   

Review:
This is the first James Patterson book I’d picked up since my grandfather had passed away, and he had loved James Patterson. Unfortunately, this wasn’t the Alex Cross realistic detective style novel that I had expected. There were so many good parts to this book, twisted paths that people took in their personal lives, information about how to tell what direction you are by the sun and stars, but there was a definite part where things became more murky. I had expected a scientific answer for everything, or some sort of reasoning beyond the lackluster non-ending received.

The star rating is based on the first 3/4 of the book, and not my personal disappointment with the ending.

Star rating: ✯✯✯✯