A review by nerdmuffin
Loss Lake by Amber Cowie

Did not finish book.

1 star because you can't give zero. Friends, I only made it to page 38. Now, I don't expect every novel to be perfect. But I certainly expect it to not contradict all logic. MC Mallory is at her new lake house only a few hours when a police officer shows up ostensibly to alert her to the fact that a death occurred on her property. And states he's telling her in case she is culpable due to negligence. Here is where things get stupid. He says the body was in the water. She doesn't own the water. It's a lake, bodies float. Why would he assume the body came from her property? He says the coroner hasn't arrived yet but already said they suspected drowning. Then pages later says the body was spotted in the middle of the lake, apparently they own no boats and had to wait for a helicopter, which arrived in time to see the body sink. So there is no body. No one was close to it. The coroner (why is one even coming without a body) never saw it. How would they know it's drowning? He also says this man made lake most likely had a rip current from the storm earlier but then says the coroner is bringing a person to "suss out the weather conditions." No one can tell the weather? He suddenly forgot he saw the storm ealier? They know the person isn't local because they have a car, but they don't have an ID. I guess there's no registration in the car. Additionally it apparently takes a while for these idiots to search the plates on the car. They must be doing it by hand. He mentions maybe the person decided to cool off in the lake. It's October. In Canada, 1300 miles north of Vancouver...which I'm pretty sure would put you in the Northwest Territories or the Yukon. I just couldn't do it anymore.