Still Lake (2002)
“A few more tourists crowding into the general store, fewer parking spaces on the town common. There was a gift shop in the once-deserted mill, and a new Scottish woolens store was opening up in the center of town, catering to the wealthy summer folk. And there was a new owner out at Stonegate Farm, planning to open as an inn in September, just in time for the leaf peepers.No, it hadn’t changed. They were still the same overbred, overeducated scions of Harvard and Yale and Princeton, still the s...ame locals who smiled and waited on them and despised them behind their backs. Except there were more of them.Why the hell had he come back here? He hated this place, with its bucolic charm and small-town nosiness. Twenty years ago it was the first place that had ever felt like home in his rootless life. He’d found out just how hospitable a place it was when he’d ended up railroaded for a murder he wouldn’t believe he’d committed.No, he didn’t give a damn about Colby, Vermont, or the people who lived there.MoreLess
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