{"id":1286,"date":"2014-03-01T13:11:46","date_gmt":"2014-03-01T19:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2014-03-01T13:11:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-01T19:11:46","slug":"mary-logue-lake-of-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/mary-logue-lake-of-tears\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Logue: Lake of Tears"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mary Logue has long been one of my favorite authors and after waiting an increasingly long time between installments, I\u2019m more than eager to pick up one of these tightly written, exciting and emotionally resonant novels.\u00a0 Unfortunately I inhale them far too quickly and am forced to settle in for another long wait for the next book.\u00a0 Logue\u2019s main character is deputy Claire Watkins, who works in tiny Fort St. Antoine, Wisconsin.\u00a0 She lives with her husband, the laconic pheasant farmer Rick, and her now almost adult daughter, Meg.<\/p>\n

\"lakeoftears\"<\/a>Logue\u2019s books seem to almost exist in real time as I feel I\u2019ve watched Meg grow up from the little girl she was in the first novels to the now young woman about to leave for college.\u00a0 This story is somewhat Meg-centric, as it opens with Meg meeting a strange man at the \u201cBurning Boat\u201d \u2013 a town celebration where a boat is burned on the beach.\u00a0 The mystery deepens when a skeleton is found the next day in the remains of the boat by a curious child.\u00a0 Claire has thought the summer had gone too easily, and she\u2019s given the double whammy of a homicide and the departure of her boss, the sheriff, for heart surgery.\u00a0 She\u2019s now acting sheriff, and uncomfortable with it, though to this reader it certainly feels like a natural progression in her career and life.<\/p>\n

Some of the story threads appear to reach back to Afghanistan and to connect somehow to two returning vets, one of whom works for Claire and who turns out to be dating Meg, who has recently broken up with her boyfriend.\u00a0 The body in the boat seems to be a missing local party girl who has a connection to both war vets.\u00a0 There\u2019s almost a surplus of clues and suspects as this energetic story surges forward.\u00a0 Meg\u2019s growth into a young woman and Claire\u2019s growth into her job as sheriff are only part of the story; with characteristic delicacy and resonance, Logue also deftly portrays the emotional lives of the two war veterans.<\/p>\n

Logue is as capable of breaking your heart as she is of lifting it up, and her books combine both aspects, much like life itself.\u00a0 The fact that she\u2019s able to combine this with a fast paced, well told and at times unexpected story, rattling with suspense and tension, make her books all the more worthwhile.\u00a0 I think she\u2019s a much underrated writer, and opening one of her books is always a joy.\u00a0 I more than recommend giving one a try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mary Logue has long been one of my favorite authors and after waiting an increasingly long time between installments, I\u2019m more than eager to pick up one of these tightly written, exciting and emotionally resonant novels.\u00a0 Unfortunately I inhale them far too quickly and am forced to settle in for another long wait for the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-1286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1288,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions\/1288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}