Winner of the 2012 Agatha Award for best first novel and the 2012 Mary Higgins Clark award. Learning to Swim: "a great cross between du Maurier’s Rebecca and your favorite Harlan Coben thriller." - BookPeople
"A single woman dives headlong from a ferry into Lake Champlain to rescue a child, and then must figure out what to do with him. Compulsively readable, this is all about what we do for love." - Boston Globe
Nominated for Barry Award for best first novel, Agatha Award for best first novel, and Mary Higgins Clark Award.
Book description:
While standing on the deck of the Lake Champlain ferry bound for Vermont, Troy Chance sees a small boy tossed over the side of a ferry going the opposite direction. Without thinking, she jumps to his rescue, setting off a chain of events that see her embroiled in a kidnapping plot with tendrils in the Adirondacks and Vermont as well as Ottawa and Montreal.
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How the book begins:
If I’d blinked, I would have missed it.
But I didn’t, and I saw something fall from the rear deck of the other ferry. It could have been a bundle of trash; it could have been a child-size doll. Either was more likely than what I thought I saw: a small wide‑eyed human face, in one tiny frozen moment as it plummeted toward the water.
What I did next was a visceral reaction to those small eyes I thought I saw. Without conscious thought I vaulted onto the railing I was leaning against, took a deep breath, and dived. It’s amazing what you can do if you don’t stop to think.
Where you can find it:
You can find Learning to Swim at your local bookstore, independent booksellers, Target, Barnes and Noble, Amazon. You can also buy it for the Kindle, Nook, Sony Reader, and other devices, and it's available on Audible.com in mp3 format.
Other editions:
The German version is called Ein Herzchlag bis zum Tod, published by DTV.
It will be coming out in Italy in 2012.