Where Secrets Lie

YA thriller 

     "Summer belonged to the three of us--belonged to the cove and the trees, the green pull of the Kentucky River, the rolling, swooping land of horse country.  Our world was the outskirts of River Run, where the prefab houses gave way to mansions and trim black fences butting up against a tangle of wild dark woods."

     Amy, protagonist of Eva Gibson's Where Secrets Lie, has spent every summer in River Run, Kentucky, the place her mother grew up in and fled the moment she was able to.  It's a place where Amy's remaining family is basically royalty, her Uncle Peter owning the quarry which most of the town relies on for jobs.  It's an outwardly pretty town with a lot of rot under the surface.  But it's the one place Amy can escape from her mother's demands for perfection and run with the people she's closest to--her best friend, Teddy, and her cousin, Ben.

     In 2018, however, an argument at their traditional at their traditional end of the summer campfire shatters the trio.  The next summer is a time to try to repair the damage.  But as they attempt to navigate their new normal tragedy strikes.

     Teddy's lively little sister, Nat, goes missing and is discovered dead.  The police ascribe her death to natural causes, drowning to be exact.  Ben, sure this is evidence of their incompetence, starts his own investigation...

     ...one that will uncover some of the uglier secrets of the family and town.

     Told in alternating chapters between the year the trio's relationships change and the year tragedy alters their world forever, Where Secrets Lie is a real treat for YA and adult thriller affecianados.

On a purrrsonal note, as I write this Penobscot County, Maine, is caught up in the meteorological drama of a blizzard.  It's one of those rare times when the actuality of the weather event lives up to the meteorologists' night before hype.  Eugene has been plowing since he got called out in the middle of the night.  UMaine has canceled classes both in person and online.  Mr. Ben Evans has told me  to stay home when school is canceled or when it isn't but commuting would be unsafe.  Where he's my internship supervisor he's the boss.  Actually I'm glad to have a stay home mandate.  That is some mess going on outside, not what I want to walk to the bus stop in.  (Jules)

What a purrrfect day 

To snuggle and play!  (Tobago)

A great big shout out goes out to Eugene and the other blizzard battlers, whoever decided to call off school, and Mr. Ben Evans for prioritizing the health and safety of his crew.

Tobago and Jules Hathaway 

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