Katherine and James run a small lakeside resort in a town
called Blissful Point, Massachusetts. Together for more than
25 years, they're happy and still as much in love as the day
they married. The warm months are perfect, idyllic times
spent together running the resort. The winters can be
brutal but they have each other and their cat named Barney.
It was all they needed.
Then, one summer's day, the child of one of the cabin's
tenants decides to slip out of the cabin in the middle of
the night. The unthinkable happens when he drowns. James is
the one who discovers the small body in the water the next
morning. He's devastated at this and slowly begins his
descent into what can only be madness.
He stops eating and sleeping. The only time he writes is in
a personal journal that he jealously guards from Katherine.
He talks to himself and speaks of a mysterious "they" that
apparently he feels is watching him. Katherine tries her
best to get him to tell her what's going on and what she can
do to help but he pushes her away with more of his words
that make no sense to her. After a particularly bad night,
Katherine gets up the next morning to find James has gone.
The only thing he has taken with him is his journal.
When A VIEW FROM THE LAKE begins, James has been missing for
a year and
Katherine has agreed to sell the resort to a property
developer so that she can start over somewhere else. On this
day, a snow shower has begun with flakes gently falling to
the ground and she remembers a visit to her old college
friend, Carlo. At the end of that visit, Carlo had offered
to look into James' disappearance. Katherine doesn't feel it
will do any good but Carlo wants something occupy his free
time so he does it anyway.
Along the road to discovering some very disturbing things in
James' background, Carlo witnesses some intensely horrific
events. He becomes convinced that Katherine is in grave
danger and is on his way to save her through what has become
a raging snow blizzard. He's not sure what he's found out
but he's sure it's bad.
Alone at her house, Katherine has begun seeing and hearing
some very strange things. As darkness approaches, she sits
huddle on the floor of her living room with her cat and a
shotgun that's pointed toward the sliding glass doors. Will
she make it through the night?
A VIEW FROM THE LAKE is a very captivating, blood chilling
tale. I simply could not put it down. It draws you in from
the first page and doesn't let you go---- ever. Not even
after I read the last page could I stop thinking about it.
There was only one problem with this book that I could find
and that's in leaving too many unanswered questions at the
end. You won't find a tidy ending here. Instead, you find
several questions that you still need to figure out. It's
quite possible that the answers were hidden in some of the
prose like writing that Mr. Gifune delivers and, in that
case, it's my own fault that the questions weren't answered
for me. At any rate, if you enjoy a good horror story that's
different from the rest, treat yourself to A VIEW FROM THE
LAKE. It's the "thinking man's" horror story.
Death is not the end.
Katherine and James ran a small lakeside resort in Blissful
Point, Massachusetts, during the hectic summer months, then
endured the often-desolate winters in relative isolation.
Their lives were happy until one morning when the body of a
young boy was found floating in the lake. From that moment
Katherine watched as her husband began to spiral into
insanity. Then he vanished without a trace.
Now, months later, as a blizzard descends over Blissful
Point, Katherine faces her final winter alone on the lake.
But things are no longer what they seem. Is something out
there, haunting the snowy woods, waiting in the lake, luring
her toward the same madness that claimed James?
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