Finished: The House Across the Lake (Sager) A good page turner! Casey Fletcher is a successful actress, both on Broadway and in a few films. She is currently staying at their family lake house in Vermont by orders of her mother, an even more famous Broadway actress, who insisted that she go there to dry out. She'd started becoming dependent on alcohol after her husband, Len, had died the year before by drowning in the lake! So much so that she'd started a matinee performance drunk and passed out on the stage within the first few minutes. Fired from the show, and with very few friends, she does go to the lake house, but she definitely doesn't stop her drinking. There are only five big lake houses on Lake Greene, most that have been in families for generations. Casey can't help but think about her wonderful marriage to Len, how they were a perfect match, and how he died at the lake. While she drowns her sorrows, she sits on the back porch overlooking the lake and realizes that the newly renovated house directly across the lake is currently occupied by its new owners, Katherine and Tom Royce. Katherine is a famous model, and stunningly beautiful. Tom has created his own software company and appears to be very controlling of Katherine. As Casey gazes out to the lake, she's sees a body floating face down!! She rushes down to her motor boat and gets there as quickly as she can. She realizes that its Katherine, who she's never met. She jumps in and turns her over and she appears to be quite dead, blue and not breathing. As Casey begins to swim with her towards the boat, Katherine suddenly starts coughing and spitting water. Casey takes Katherine home and warms her up and the two talk and begin to become fast friends. Katherine is super appreciative that Casey saved her life, and she also opens up a bit about her struggling marriage. In the days that follow, Casey begins to spy on Tom and Katherine with binoculars and she comes to the conclusion that she thinks Tom is somehow responsible for Katherine almost drowning...even though Katherine says she was just out for a swim, but then became exhausted and cramped up and couldn't go on. Meanwhile, a good looking stranger, Boone, moves into the house right next to Casey's. He's a friend of the owners and they're letting him stay there while he, in return, does some repairs around the house. Soon enough, suspicions begin to turn to reality, as Tom's behavior across the lake becomes stranger and stranger, and Katherine appears to be more and more frightened. Meanwhile,  Casey continues to drink herself into oblivion every day. When it comes to light that three other women have disappeared near the lake in the last few years, Casey realizes there is a serial killer around. Nothing is as it seems and there are some pretty surprising reveals. At a point, Casey doesn't even know if she can trust Boone, who she has become friends with. When Katherine appears to go missing, Boone is the one who calls a detective friend of his who, it turns out, he used to work with on the force. The actual truth of what has happened to Katherine requires a bit of suspension of belief, but it's definitely an ending I've never read before. :-)