Title: In the Lake of the Woods
First published: July 2007
Description: On a lake deep in Minnesota's north woods, John and Kathy Wade are trying to reassemble their lives. John, a rising political star, has just suffered a devastating electoral defeat. Kathy attempts to comfort her husband, but soon it becomes apparent that something is horribly wrong between them, that they have hidden too much from each other.

Then one day Kathy vanishes. Their boat is gone - did she drown or is she lost? Or did she flee, disappearing into a new life? As a massive search gets under way, the possibilities multiply in terrifying directions. Uncovering the truth requires an investigation of Wade's life, and gradually we come to see that he is a sorcerer lost inside his own magic, a Houdini capable of escaping everything but the chains of his darkest secret.
Subjects: Married people, Fiction, Missing persons, Politicians, New York Times reviewed, Married people in fiction, Missing persons in fiction, Politicians in fiction, Minnesota in fiction, Domestic fiction, Fiction, general, Fiction, sagas, Married people, fiction, Missing persons, fiction, Politicians, fiction, Minnesota, fiction, 18.06 Anglo-American literature, World literature, Fiction subjects, Fiction, family life
Places: Minnesota