Characters
She is the recently widowed actress who retreats to her family's lake house.
Who is Casey Fletcher
This is the name of the Vermont lake where Casey's family has a house.
What is Lake Greene?
This person suddenly disappears, causing Casey to become suspicious.
Who is Katherine
Casey's favorite escape from reality becomes a major problem throughout the book.
What is alcohol
The person Casey thinks is Katherine near the end of the book is actually this person.
Who is Len
This former model lives across the lake with Tom Royce.
Who is Katherine Royce
Casey uses these to watch the Royce house from across the lake.
What are binoculars
Casey initially suspects this person is responsible for Katherine's disappearance.
Who is Tom
Casey's habit of watching the Royces turns into this type of behavior.
What is voyeurism/spying
Len's spirit takes control of this person's body.
Who is Katherine
This tech entrepreneur is Katherine's husband.
Who is Tom Royce
Casey saves Katherine from this potentially deadly event.
What is drowning
Casey discovers that Katherine's apparent social-media activity was actually this.
What was fabricated/faked
Tom is secretly doing this to Katherine.
What is poisoning her
Len reveals that Casey already knew about his murders because she had discovered evidence of them in this.
What is his tackle box
Casey's deceased husband, a screenwriter, is revealed to have a much darker secret.
Who is Len Bradly
Casey's husband Len supposedly died in this lake before the events of the novel.
What is Lake Greene
Casey and Boone learn that several young women have disappeared in the area.
What is a series of missing-girl cases
Casey learns that Len was not the loving husband she believed him to be. He was secretly this.
What is a serial killer
Casey ultimately allows Len's spirit to enter her body so she can do this.
What is take Len into the lake and try to destroy him
This former police officer and handyman helps Casey investigate Katherine's disappearance.
Who is Boone Conrad
The lake becomes important to the supernatural element because of what happens to Len after his death.
What is his spirit remains connected to the lake and is able to possess others
Casey eventually discovers that the person responsible for those murders is much closer to her than she ever imagined.
Who is Len
Casey had already discovered Len's secret and did this to him before the novel's main events.
What is drugging him and pushing him into Lake Greene, causing his death
In the final confrontation, Casey discovers that Tom really was trying to kill Katherine, even though the truth about Len had completely changed the investigation.
What is Tom was poisoning Katherine for her money