The Echo of Dead Lake

Bestselling series of Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Amazon Charts

She is waiting for trouble from everywhere.
But such evil is hard to imagine even for her…
The sinister past literally haunts private detective Gwen Proctor. But her present is no less nightmarish. After a bloody incident at school, Gwen's son and other family members once again become prey for the media. To protect her loved ones, Gwen decides to go to North Carolina, where she has been offered a case: to find a missing girl.
The last time Juliet Larson was seen, she was getting into a car with a guy who was clearly familiar to her. But no one else knows anything about him. Gwen knows how to find the missing when the situation is hopeless — however, this time she is powerless as well. Any lead only raises new questions. Proctor does not yet know that she has gained an enemy who is almost impossible to track down. And that now horror will return to her home on Dead Lake…

Rachel Caine began this novel already knowing about her terminal illness. She was not destined to finish it. However, the series "Dead Lake,” important to Caine both as a person and as a writer, was continued by her talented friend, also a New York Times bestselling author.