Lost Lake

By: Phillip Margolin

Narrated by: Deborah Hazlett

It's a beautiful summer night in Portland, Oregon. Ami Vergano, a young attorney and single mother, arrives at her son Ryan's little league game with their tenant and new friend, Dan Morelli. When the assistant coach calls in sick, Morelli seems happy to help out.But then one player roughly blocks another and a fight erupts.Before the game ends, Ami witnesses violence that shocks and horrifies her and makes her question everything she thought she knew about Morelli.

On the other side of the continent, ex-mental patient Vanessa Kohler, a reporter for Exposed, a tabloid that specializes in alien abduction stories, watches a piece on television about the little league massacre and quickly places a call to the FBI. For years she's been telling anyone who will listen about a vast government conspiracy to conceal a secret military unit headed by General Morris Wingate, a presidential candidate, and for years everyone has dismissed her stories. But when Vanessa sees Dan Morelli fighting, she believes she's found the key to proving that her theories are true.

Vanessa hires Ami Vergano to represent Morelli, who is charged with attempted murder, and Ami is drawn into Vanessa's paranoid world. Are Vanessa, a former mental patient, and Morelli, a confessed mass murder, telling the truth about one of the nation's most respected soldiers and politicians? Or are their charges the products of two sick minds? Ami has to decide who and what to believe in Phillip Margolin's most exciting and surprising thriller since his breakout bestseller Gone, But Not Forgotten.

Performed by Kristine Sutherland

Full of Intrigue

I love Margolin's books. This one isn't necessarily a legal thriller, but one filled with murder, spies, and corruption.

Loved this thriller

Just when you think you have figured out which way to lean you are pulled back the other way. really good story with suspense and wonder.

I couldn't wait to get in my car to listen!!

I truly enjoyed this book, sometimes I went back to the beginning just to make sure that I grasped the story, but otherwise it was extremely entertaining and very gripping. I completely enjoyed the characters and would be very interested in seeing if this would make the big screen.

not his best

the narration was fine but she misprounounced a local word. unfortunately i didn't come to care about the characters so i didn;t care what happened. i struggled with the timeline of the story, as well

Another winner by Phillip Margolin

I really enjoy stories by Phillip Margolin. Having grown up in the Portland, Oregon area, it is especially fun to recognize the names of familiar landmarks and areas I frequented over the years. The book, "Lost Lake" is no different. However, I was disappointed to hear the reader, Deborah Hazeltt, mispronounce the word Willamette. She used the pronunciation of the Willamette in the east not the pronunciation used in Oregon. I hope that the next time Phillip Margolin has a book published, the reader (and publisher) will do the necessary research to ensure that the names unique to the Pacific Northwest are pronounced correctly.

Otherwise, this is a very entertaining and fun book and I recommend it to all readers who enjoy mysteries.