Chatting Books Online Day 75. Today's recommended book : "Burial in Endwater" by Kelly Landry is a lucky find courtesy of Covid-19. Like I am sure many others have done I have been doing a bit of purging during lockdown. On days when I was in the house I cleaned out closets and drawers and on days when I was in the bookstore to wait for folks to pick up their front porch curbside pickups I went through the backroom at the bookstore and shuffled through stacks of books and advertisements and catalogs and threw away a TON of stuff (not that the room looks any neater today because it does not). But among the stacks I found a book in an envelope and tucked inside that book was a note. Seams in early 2016 just a few months after we opened the store an author paid us a visit. According to the note we chatted and she told me about her book. The truth is I have no recollection of this conversation, that entire time period just opening the store is a blur. Anyway at some point afterward she mailed me the book along with this note. I am embarrassed to say I never even took it out of the envelope. Until now that is. My curiosity was tweaked and I had just finished the book I was reading previously so I opened the book and sat down to read. Well I hardly got up until I finished it.
The book is set in and around the Boston area and tells the tale of brother and sister Lydia and George Speare whose father has just gone to jail for murder; and the family of the very famous prosecuting attorney. With secrets and lies in both families there are more twists and turns than you will find on a coastal road all ending with a burial in Endwater, but whose burial ? That is the question and in reading this enjoyable book you will find the answer.
Paperback, 335 pages. $ 15.00 a copy.
