Description: "Trent's years as a poet serve her well in this heavily atmospheric novel, which deftly conjures up both evil and the small town's complicit reluctance to face its past." Kirkus Reviews " Echo Lake is more than just a good debut novel. It is the coming-out party for Letitia Trent, the new poet-queen of neo-noir." Kyle Minor, author of Praying Drunk In Echo Lake , Letitia Trent, with deceptively simple, beautiful language, creates a small American town slowly self destructing under the weight of its secrets. Trent illuminates the mystery of family and community, the pain of loss, all the while spinning a tale of murder and suspense. It's at turns a lovely and bone chilling read." Paula Bomer, author of Inside Madeleine In Echo Lake , Trent's small town characters guard their secrets, and warn their children away from the mist-covered lake. Dark, ominous, and lyrical, Echo Lake is a beautiful exploration of loss, and the menace of deceptive surfaces." Karen Brown, author of The Longings of Wayward Girls Trent's debut novel combines a ripping good scare with prose as rich as dark verse. Her characters wear the imprint of the past like livid bruises, the bravest among them untangling their distorted histories to discover truths about the nature of community, family and self." Sophie Littlefield, author of House of Glass "Echo Lake itself is perhaps the most memorable aspect of Echo Lake; Trent builds it up to be a truly eerie setting, a body of sickly water that is as haunting as it is haunted, where one cannot go swimming without risk of injury, thanks to the debris that lies just under the surface, and the fumes that pour out of it at night." Monkeybicycle

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