Description: Nora didn't expect Hidden Lake Camp to be in a state of ruin?dock full of rotten boards, smashed windows, cabins falling apart. To her new husband, Paul, the camp is the past he'd just as soon bury. Nora agreed to drive north with him to get his elderly parents settled while he makes enough repairs to sell the property, which will only take a few months. The summer camp, however, and its deep lake have other plans. After Nora's first meal with Paul's difficult family, one knife?part of a prized collection?goes missing. By the time the fourth and fifth vanish from behind locked doors and out from under watchful eyes, Nora can barely sleep. There's talk of ghosts, secret rooms, and someone at the summer camp found dead in the tall grass. Unsettling, gripping, and totally original, Book of Knives is a literary thriller that shows how one person's unraveling can bring the whole house down.
Brief description: Lise Haines is the author of several novels, including When We Disappear, Girl in the Arena, and In My Sister's Country. A Senior Writer in Residence at Emerson College, she is a past finalist for the PEN Nelson Algren Fiction Award and a former Briggs-Copeland Lecturer at Harvard University. She received her undergraduate degree from the Creative Writing program at Syracuse University and her MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars.