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The Angel of Indian Lake

Pages
464
Published
2024
Language
English

Synopsis

Four years after the events of Don't Fear the Reaper, Jade Daniels is back in Proofrock, Idaho. She is older and more scarred now, and she teaches history while trying to keep a fragile life from coming apart.

She is not left alone. A private investigative firm is documenting her every move, and the wealthy new residents of Terra Nova are dredging up the drowned mining town that lies beneath Indian Lake.

On the water, teenagers have started to glimpse a woman in a white gown crossing the surface. They call her the Angel of Indian Lake. Then the bodies start again.

Jade, a scholar of slasher movies and a reluctant final girl, closes out the Indian Lake Trilogy here. The tone is elegiac and heavily bloody, with grief and trauma running through the violence. The question is what surviving has cost her, and whether she can survive once more.

How it reads

Prose complexity 5/10
Content warnings (4)
Graphic ViolenceGoreViolenceTrauma