The Lake Keeps What It Loves

Thirty years ago, Deputy Gage Chase vanished while investigating a string of drownings at Cranberry Lake. No body. No clues. Only rumors of the knocking beneath the water and the condemned sanatorium that watched the shoreline long after its last patient died.

Now the lake has given a body back.

Sheriff Judson Paige arrives before dawn to find a corpse in a uniform no one has worn in decades—perfectly preserved, impossibly intact. Dr. Joann Foster, a medical examiner from Albany, is called in...