Set on the waters and shores of Lake Champlain, THE LAKE OF LIVING WATER is a novel imbued with a deep sense of place, with the contours and layers of landscape and history. It's 1979, and Vermont state police detective Tom Durham has arrived to investigate a brutal death on the lake. At the same time, old human remains have been discovered at a site used for shipbuilding during the war of 1812, turned up along the ever-changing shore... So begins a confluence of people and their stories, current and past: Stories of love, murder, war, and migration; stories of the human heart and the natural world, flowing together to reveal the ancient power and endless mystery of an inland sea.