Journal Entry 1 by elsi from Sanger, Texas USA on Friday, August 14, 2009

This is the second copy of this book that I've had. I actually read this book as part of a bookring. I wanted to have a copy to offer in a swap at BookObsessed, so I picked this up at a discount store. From the back cover:

Laurel Gray Hawthorne hasn't seen a ghost in the thirteen years she and her husband have lived in their beautiful gated community. Then, in the dog days of a Florida August, she wakes to find Molly, her daughter's best friend, standing by her bed, who then leads her to her own small body floating lifelessly in the Hawthorne's pool. Laurel's carefully constructed existence cracks, and the past seeps through...

Lauren and her sister, Thalia, grew up in what looked like a typical blue-collar home. But the Grays have long been hiding a skeleton in their closet. While Laurel built her "perfect" life,

Journal Entry 2 by elsi at Swap, BookObsessed Swap -- Controlled Releases on Friday, August 21, 2009

Released 2 yrs ago (8/17/2009 UTC) at Swap, BookObsessed Swap -- Controlled Releases

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Mailed to momx3lovesbooks who won it in Marlene's Birthday Swap at BookObsessed. 

Journal Entry 3 by momx3lovesbooks on Saturday, September 19, 2009

Thanks Elsi! I received this awile ago but kept forgetting to journal! Sorry!!

Jackson matches effortless Southern storytelling with a keen eye for character and heart-stopping circumstances. Laurel, a high-end quilt maker, sees the ghost of a little girl in her bedroom one night. When it leads her to the backyard and a dead girl in the swimming pool, the life Laurel had hoped to build in her gated Florida neighborhood with her video-game designer husband, David, and their tween daughter, Shelby, starts to fall apart. Though the police clear the drowning as accidental, it soon appears that Shelby and her friend Bet may have been involved. Bet, who lives in DeLop, Laurel's impoverished hometown, was staying over the night of the drowning and plays an increasingly important role as the truth behind the drowning comes to light. Meanwhile, Laurel's sister, Thalia, whose unconventional ways are anathema to Laurel's staid existence, comes to stay with the family and helps sort things out. Subplots abound: Laurel thinks David is having an affair, and Thalia reveals some ugly family secrets involving the death of their uncle. What makes this novel shine are its revelations about the dark side of Southern society and Thalia and Laurel's finely honed relationship, which shows just how much thicker blood is than water.

WOW this book was really good and I never saw the ending coming!!