Redemption Lake
by Susan
Clayton-Goldner
Published: May 17,
2017
Publisher: Tirgearr
Publishing
Genre: Mystery,
Suspense
Blurb:
Tucson, Arizona – Eighteen-year-old Matt Garrison is harboring
two terrible secrets: his involvement in the drowning death of his 12-year-old
cousin, and a night of drunken sex with his best friend’s mother, Crystal, whom
he finds dead in a bathtub of blood. Guilt forces Matt to act on impulse and
hide his involvement with Crystal.
Detective Winston Radhauser knows Matt is hiding something.
But as the investigation progresses, Radhauser’s attention is focused on Matt’s
father. Matt’s world closes in when his father is arrested for Crystal’s
murder, and Travis breaks off their friendship.
Despite his father’s guilty plea, Matt knows his dad is
innocent and only trying to protect his son. Devastated and bent on
self-destruction, Matt heads for the lake where his cousin died—the only place
he believes can truly free him. Are some secrets better left buried?
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My Review:
Eighteen year old Matt Garrison wakes up in the bed of his
best friend Travis’ mother Crystal’s bed after a night of drinking. He rushes
to the bathroom and finds Crystal lying in a pool of blood in the bathtub.
Needless to say his first thought was what have I done? But he thinks he couldn’t
have killed anyone and if he didn’t kill her who did? Next he thinks of his
best friend Travis and not letting him see his mother like this and of being
caught at a murder scene so he fleas without calling the police or informing
anyone.
Now Matt is running around trying to figure out what
happened to Crystal and keep all his secrets hidden. Detective Winston
Radhauser along with others know that Matt is hiding something but is not sure
what until he arrests Matt’s dad. Matt is very determined now to find out what happened
to Crystal. Did Matt kill her? Did his dad kill her? Did she kill herself? Was
it murder or was it suicide? What happened to Crystal? Matt is not sure find
out if you are.
I read Susan’s novel A Bend in the Willow and loved it and I
am so very glad I read Redemption Lake as it was just as good if not better.
Both will leave you on the edge of your seat trying to figure out whodunit and
wanting more. Redemption Lake will have you turning the pages so fast you will
feel as if you are on the lake racing away on a speed boat. I would like to place
a caution up though while reading Redemption Lake you will need a couple of
boxes of tissue when getting inside of Matt’s heart and mind.
AUTHOR BIO:
Susan Clayton-Goldner was born in New
Castle, Delaware and grew up with four brothers along the banks of the Delaware
River. She is a graduate of the University of Arizona's Creative Writing
Program and has been writing most of her life. Her novels have been finalists
for The Hemingway Award, the Heeken Foundation Fellowship, the Writers
Foundation and the Publishing On-line Contest. Susan won the National Writers'
Association Novel Award twice for unpublished novels and her poetry was
nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Her work has appeared in numerous
literary journals and anthologies including Animals as Teachers and Healers,
published by Ballantine Books, Our Mothers/Ourselves, by the Greenwood
Publishing Group, The Hawaii Pacific Review-Best of a Decade, and New
Millennium Writings. A collection of her poems, A Question of Mortality was released in 2014 by Wellstone Press.
Prior to writing full time, Susan worked as the Director of Corporate Relations
for University Medical Center in Tucson, Arizona.
Susan
shares a life in Grants Pass, Oregon with her husband, Andreas, her fictional
characters, and more books than one person could count.
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