Broken river

By J. Robert Lennon

Subjects: Murder -- Fiction, Married people -- Fiction, Adultery -- Fiction, Families -- Fiction, Married people, fiction, Fiction, Fiction, psychological, Murder, Families, Fiction, family life, Married people, Fiction, thrillers, New york (state), fiction, Adultery, New York Times reviewed, New York (State) -- Fiction

Description: "Karl, Eleanor, and their daughter, Irina, arrive from New York City in the wake of Karl's infidelity to start anew. Karl tries to stabilize his flailing art career. Eleanor, a successful commercial novelist, eagerly pivots in a new creative direction. Meanwhile, twelve-year-old Irina becomes obsessed with the brutal murders that occurred in the house years earlier. And, secretly, so does her mother. As the ensemble cast grows to include Louis, a hapless salesman in a carpet warehouse who is haunted by his past, and Sam, a young woman newly reunited with her jailbird brother, the seemingly unrelated crime that opened the story becomes ominously relevant. Hovering over all this activity looms a gradually awakening narrative consciousness that watches these characters lie to themselves and each other, unleashing forces that none of them could have anticipated and that put them in mortal danger" -- from publisher's web site.