# The Deepest Lake - Paperback

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by **Andromeda Romano-Lax** (Author)

**A grieving mother goes undercover to investigate her daughter's mysterious death at a luxury memoir-writing workshop on the shores of Lake Atitlán, Guatemala in this atmospheric thriller for fans of HBO's _The White Lotus,_ Lisa Jewell, and Ashley Audrain.**

**Includes an excerpt of _What Boys Learn_, the standalone suspense novel from Andromeda Romano-Lax about a high school guidance counselor's growing fear that her son may have had a role in the deaths of two teenage girls in a wealthy Chicago suburb.**

Rose, the mother of twentysomething aspiring writer Jules, has waited three months for answers about her daughter's death. Why was she swimming alone when she feared the water? Why did she stop texting days before she was last seen?

When the official investigation rules the death an accidental drowning, the body possibly lost forever in Central America's deepest lake, an unsatisfied Rose travels to the memoir workshop herself. She hopes to draw her own conclusion--and find closure. When Rose arrives, she is swept into the curious world created by her daughter's literary hero, the famous writing teacher Eva Marshall, a charismatic woman known for her candid--and controversial--memoirs. As Rose uncovers details about the days leading up to Jules's disappearance, she begins to suspect that this glamorous retreat package is hiding ugly truths. Is Lake Atitlán a place where traumatized women come to heal or a place where deeper injury is inflicted?

_The Deepest Lake_ is both a sharp look at the sometimes toxic, exclusionary world of high-class writing workshops and an achingly poignant view of a mother's grief.

### Author Biography

**Andromeda Romano-Lax** is the author of five novels translated into eleven languages, including _The Spanish Bow_, a _New York Times_ Editors' Choice, and _Annie and the Wolves_, selected by _Booklist_ as a Top Ten Historical Novel. Her novels reflect her interest in topics as varied as art acquisition during the Nazi era (_The Detour_), psychological scandals of the 1920s (_Behave_), and artificial intelligence and the future of eldercare (_Plum Rains_). Born in Chicago, she lived in Alaska (where she co-founded 49 Writers), Taiwan, and Mexico before settling on a small island in British Columbia, Canada.

**Number of Pages:** 400

**Dimensions:** 1.11 x 8.17 x 5.56 IN

**Publication Date:** April 29, 2025

## Details

- **Price:** 25.95 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Books, Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Price Written on Book, Suspense, Thrillers, Women, Women Sleuths

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