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Stillhouse Lake
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Summary and Study Guide
Overview
Stillhouse Lake (2017) is a novel in the thriller suspense genre written by Rachel Caine. It is the first novel in the Stillhouse Lake series of six books, published over 2017-2022. The Stillhouse Lake series became bestsellers across the United States. A novelist since 2010, Caine amassed a corpus of over 40 books that span young adult and adult fiction across the crime, psychological thriller, and fantasy genres, often exploring dark themes. Rachel Caine died in 2020 at age 58; the final book in the series was a collaboration with the author Carrie Ryan, who helped with its completion. Rachel Caine received a Paranormal Pearl Award, an RT Booklovers Award, and a Career Achievement Award from Romantic Times.
This guide refers to the paperback edition published by Thomas & Mercer in 2017.
Content Warning: This guide refers to murder, sexual violence, torture and mutilation, child abduction, harassment and hate speech, threat to life, and rape threats, which feature in Stillhouse Lake.
Plot Summary
Stillhouse Lake tells the story of Gina Royal, aka Gwen Proctor, an ostensibly normal American housewife and mother of two. One day, Gina goes to pick her children up from school while her husband, Unlock all 51 pages of this Study Guide Plus, gain access to 8,900+ more expert-written Study Guides. Including features:
