My Overview with Spoilers of The Lake of Misplaced Women discusses that I’m somewhat over Books with Podcast Components. Whereas this guide had some flaws, I nonetheless discovered it enjoyable and gratifying. Will you find it irresistible? Let’s talk about!
Previous-present timeline, alternating from the current to the late Nineteen Nineties
Faculty aged characters, which provides it a little bit of a youthful really feel
The podcast components added little to the story (in my view)
My reader associates say the audiobook is de facto good
Printed on November 5, 2024 by Crooked Lane. 320 pages. Due to the writer for the advance copy for evaluate.
Overview with Spoilers of The Lake of Misplaced Women
The thriller on the heart of The Lake of Misplaced Women is concerning the disappearance of 4 feminine college students from a North Carolina faculty within the late Nineteen Nineties.
The story alternates between Jessica, one of many lacking women, in 1998, and Jessica’s youthful sister Lindsay within the current. Lindsey was a younger little one when her sister vanished and now manages a resort.
The guide follows a really acquainted plotline utilized by most Suspense Books With Podcast Components which is {that a} podcast begins a deep (on this case, not likely) dive into the lacking individuals instances.
To me, essentially the most fascinating a part of the guide is what number of clues it dropped. I’m used to books that preserve you guessing till the top. I believe the guide did current numerous alternate situations, however to me the clues (I’ll talk about them under) pointed in just one route.
Spoilers and Plot Abstract for The Lake of Misplaced Women
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First, the podcast. Sadly, the podcast on this guide was the sort I hate: a few individuals simply having rambling conversations.
The guide then dropped a MAJOR CLUE: there was a horrible scent in Jessica and Lindsay’s storage. Horrible. So horrible! I assumed this should be a crimson herring, proper???
As can be typically the case in books with podcast components, there’s a nosy reporter that the principle character has to fall in love with: Ryan McKay.
Extra Necessary Clues:
We study that Jessica was relationship an older man: Professor Daniels. And he was relationship two of the opposite lacking women, Phoebe and Tammy.
As well as, we study that Jessica’s relationship along with her dad was creepily shut.
We then study that reporter Ryan McKey knew Jessica at collage. Like knew within the Biblical sense.
Lindsay then finds a bunch of proof of her sister’s “secret life” as a tough partying sorority lady
Ryan was relationship not simply Jessica, however Phoebe (in highschool) and Tammy (in faculty.) I assume this was a tiny city with not that many individuals up to now, because it looks as if there’s a LOT of overlap.
Let’s Recap our Suspects
Jessica’s dad (he appeared to have a relationship with the fourth lacking lady, Meghan)
Ryan McKay (he has an anger drawback)
Professor Daniels (despite the fact that relationship college students was not likely a unfavourable factor within the 90s. However he was married.)
Jess, as a result of she consistently used her roommate Daisy’s ID to do who is aware of what. (I went to high school within the 90s and I don’t assume IDs had been used for that a lot moreover entering into the eating corridor and the library. And I’m undecided they had been tracked electronically at the moment. However okay.)
My Two Theories
Ben, Jess’s dad, is the serial killer and, as she is a Daddy’s lady within the excessive, is both serving to him get victims or simply masking for him
The reverse: Jessica is the killer and her dad is masking for her.
Who was the Killer in The Lake of Misplaced Women?
Effectively, I used to be (principally) proper. Jessica was the killer. Sure, her dad was sleeping with younger ladies BUT Jessica was the one who killed Tammy, Phoebe, and Meghan.
Ben helped Jessica eliminate the ladies’ our bodies within the lake.
However ultimately, Ben killed Jessica to cease her killing spreee and hid her physique within the storage (in a ship).
Nevertheless, he confesses to ALL the murders as a result of …. I don’t know. To protect Jessica’s fame?
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