Violet Dawn

You know you are in for a fast moving suspense novel when the opening scene has a woman slipping into her hot tub for a late night soak--and discovering a dead body. The woman is Paige--a new resident of the Kanner Lake community, and someone with a lot of past secrets that she wants to keep hidden. The body is Edna San--a semi-celebrity and Kanner Lake's most famous resident.
I like books that suck you in right from the beginning, and the opening scene of this one did just that.

This story follows Paige who is new to town and doesn���t know really how to connect with people. There is a secret in her past she wishes to stay hidden but it seems that God hates her. For one night she finds a dead body in her jacuzzi and in an effort to remain hidden and be able to continue her current life she removes the body and hides it. However with some very helpful anonymous ���tips��� the police keep finding their investigation to lead to her. So we follow her through this crisis to watch her face down some old demons.

The story is decently written with some very good twists and turns. The character development is good and although there were some events that I thought could have been elaborated on. The show more chapter change usually means a change of perspective to another character. Where this usually easy to follow what I didn���t like was that there was one perspective throughout that was on a different time clock than the rest of the storyline. This made it quite confusing for me to follow and is my complaint about the book. All the other perspectives added to the story as a progression. However this out of synced one made it confusing to understand why it as placed where it was. In the end the details fit in with the plot but I think it could have been handled through the line better. All in all a good page turner that kept you guessing and anxiously awaiting the next twist. show less

This story follows Paige who is new to town and doesn���������t know really how to connect with people. There is a secret in her past she wishes to stay hidden but it seems that God hates her. For one night she finds a dead body in her jacuzzi and in an effort to remain hidden and be able to continue her current life she removes the body and hides it. However with some very helpful anonymous ���������tips��������� the police keep finding their investigation to lead to her. So we follow her through this crisis to watch her face down some old demons.

The story is decently written with some very good twists and turns. The character development is good and although there were some events show more that I thought could have been elaborated on. The chapter change usually means a change of perspective to another character. Where this usually easy to follow what I didn���������t like was that there was one perspective throughout that was on a different time clock than the rest of the storyline. This made it quite confusing for me to follow and is my complaint about the book. All the other perspectives added to the story as a progression. However this out of synced one made it confusing to understand why it as placed where it was. In the end the details fit in with the plot but I think it could have been handled through the line better. All in all a good page turner that kept you guessing and anxiously awaiting the next twist. show less

It was an intriguing mystery.

It was an intriguing mystery.

Brandilyn Collins' books are riveting. The Kanner Lake Series was wonderful and suspenseful! Loved all four books in the series!

Paige Williams slips into her hot tub in the blackness of night - and finds herself face to face with death.

Book I (Kenner Lake Series)