The Girl in the Lake

Brought to you by Penguin. The girl in the lake was never supposed to be found. When her body surfaces in the frozen waters of Cayuga Lake, a note left on the body turns Brendan Holmes from private investigator to prime suspect. With his name on the line and a deadly adversary closing in, Holmes and his partners – Margaret Marple and Auguste Poe – are forced back into a game they thought they’d escaped. And this time, the rules have changed: stop solving crimes… or be forced to commit them. PRAISE FOR JAMES PATTERSON ‘Nobody does it better' JEFFERY DEAVER 'No one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades' LEE CHILD 'Patterson boils a scene down to the single, telling detail, the element that defines a character or moves a plot along. It's what fires off the movie projector in the reader's mind' MICHAEL CONNELLY 'James Patterson is The Boss' IAN RANKIN ‘One of the greatest storytellers of our time’ DAILY MAIL 'A writer with an unusual skill at thriller plotting.' GUARDIAN © James Patterson 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026