The Girl Who Stopped Swimming- Joshilyn Jackson
Summary - copied from the Author's website
Laurel Gray Hawthorne needs to make things pretty, whether she's helping her mother make sure the very literal family skeleton stays buried or turning scraps of fabric into nationally acclaimed art quilts. Her estranged sister Thalia, an impoverished Actress with a capital A, is her polar opposite, priding herself on exposing the lurid truth lurking behind middle class niceties. While Laurel's life seems neat and on track--a passionate marriage, a treasured daughter, and a lovely home in suburban Victorianna--everything she holds dear is suddenly thrown into question the night she is visited by the ghost of a her 14-year old neighbor Molly Dufresne.
The ghost leads Laurel to the real Molly floating lifelessly in the Hawthorne's backyard pool. Molly's death is inexplicable--an unseemly mystery Laurel knows no one in her whitewashed neighborhood is up to solving. Only her wayward, unpredictable sister is right for the task, but calling in a favor from Thalia is like walking straight into a frying pan protected only by Crisco. Enlisting Thalia's help, Laurel sets out on a life-altering journey that triggers startling revelations about her family's guarded past, the true state of her marriage, and the girl who stopped swimming.
So far I am about half way thru the book and I find it to be pretty interesting. I like the anticipation it makes you feel when wandering who did this horrible crime to an innocent child. When I finish the book I will come back with a full review!
Well I just finished The Girl Who Stopped Swimming and I thought it was a very good book! I never expected the book to turn out like it did! It was sort of like suspence, mystery and fiction rolled into one novel. I would recommend this book for sure! Now it is off to the next book...Sookie Stackhouse's Dead Reckoning!
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