I barely finished this book. I was looking for a good mystery book and that was not it, there is little mystery and the main idea of the book is that a woman is entitled somehow to good life while ruining everyone’s life around her. The feminist ideas were hard to get behind and the race issues were handled from the point of view of a white person with little knowledge of the subject, it seems. I am troubled with so many female authors praising the idea of mothers leaving their kids behind to peruse their personal life with little consideration for the childhood trauma that creates. It looks like the crime stories were thrown in just as a secondary plot.

Really hard to read and keep up with. Maybe it was just me. But every chapter seemed like it was a different characters point of view with some random dead lady of the lake rambling at the main characters. Plot was non existent and character believability was difficult. Felt like the end was just thrown together. Very disappointed.