Lake Silence

How it reads

Lake Silence is fantasy (urban fantasy mystery, specifically), and its dominant mood is eerie. It's atmospheric and uncanny, with a sense that something is wrong. The pace is moderate — neither a page-turner nor a slow burn — so it holds up whether you read it in long sittings or short ones.

It's set in an invented world, in no single period, told in the third person across several viewpoints. Its central concerns are secrets, justice and nature. In weight it sits in the middle: substantial without being heavy going.

It's a companion to a series: set in the same world, readable on its own. The ending resolves happily. At 402 pages it's an ordinary novel's length. It's well known, the kind of book most keen readers have heard of.