* A surefire hit Jo Spain * Masterful Karen Thompson Walker * I could not put it down Eliza Robertson * THIS DAY NEVER HAPPENED. YOU HEAR ME? By a frozen lake, ten-year-old Jesse waits for his father. Its New Years Day, and his dad promised a fresh start. But Jesse messed it all up. And thats when he meets the woman. In the months ahead, the womans sudden disappearance sets off a chain of events in Whale Bay, spanning out like fracture lines into the lives of her husband, the detective trying to solve her case, and of Jesse and his family - a young boy cracking like ice under the weight of a terrible secret. How A Woman Becomes a Lake is a chilling literary mystery that asks what happens when we are failed by the ones we love.