“Echo Lake is more than just a good debut novel. It is the coming-out party for Letitia Trent, the new poet-queen of neo-noir.”
—KYLE MINOR, author of Praying Drunk
“In Echo Lake, Letitia Trent, with deceptively simple, beautiful language, creates a small American town slowly self destructing under the weight of its secrets. Trent illuminates the mystery of family and community, the pain of loss, all the while spinning a tale of murder and suspense. It’s at turns a lovely and bone chilling read.”
—PAULA BOMER, author of Inside Madeleine
“In Echo Lake, Trent’s small town characters guard their secrets, and warn their children away from the mist-covered lake. Dark, ominous, and lyrical, Echo Lake is a beautiful exploration of loss, and the menace of deceptive surfaces.”
—KAREN BROWN, author of The Longings of Wayward Girls
“Trent’s debut novel combines a ripping good scare with prose as rich as dark verse. Her characters wear the imprint of the past like livid bruises, the bravest among them untangling their distorted histories to discover truths about the nature of community, family and self.”
—SOPHIE LITTLEFIELD, author of House of Glass
“Trent’s years as a poet serve her well in this heavily atmospheric novel, which deftly conjures up both evil and a small town’s complicit reluctance to face its past.”
—KIRKUS REVIEWS
DARK HOUSE PRESS
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This is a work of fiction. All incidents, situations, institutions, governments, and people are fictional and any similarity to characters or persons living or dead is strictly coincidental.
Published by Dark House Press, an imprint of Curbside Splendor Publishing, Inc., Chicago, Illinois in 2014.
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Copyright © 2014 by Letitia Trent
Library of Congress Control Number: 2014942039
ISBN 978-1-940430-03-4
Edited by Richard Thomas
Cover photograph by Helena Kvarnstrom
Interior photo © Lisa Valder/iStock
Designed by Alban Fischer
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