• The Swimming Pool

  • By: Holly LeCraw
  • Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
  • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
  • 2.8 out of 5 stars (13 ratings)

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The Swimming Pool

By: Holly LeCraw
Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
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Publisher's summary

A heartbreaking affair, an unsolved murder, an explosive romance: Welcome to summer on the Cape in this powerful debut.

Seven summers ago, Marcella Atkinson fell in love with Cecil McClatchey, a married father of two. But on the same night their romance abruptly ended, Cecil's wife was found murdered - and their lives changed forever. The case was never solved, and Cecil died soon after, an uncharged suspect. Now divorced and estranged from her only daughter, Marcella lives alone, mired in grief and guilt. Meanwhile, Cecil's grown son, Jed, returns to the Cape with his sister for the first time in years. One day he finds a woman's bathing suit buried in a closet - a relic, unbeknownst to him, of his father's affair - and, on a hunch, confronts Marcella. When they fall into an affair of their own, their passion temporarily masks the pain of the past, but also leads to crises and revelations they never could have imagined. In what is sure to be the debut of the season, The Swimming Pool delivers a sensuous narrative of such force and depth that you won't be able to put it down.

©2010 Holly LeCraw (P)2010 Random House

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Skip - I could not finish

This book had such promise, but I had to stop after about 100 pages/3 hours in. It was a painful attempt to re-create "Bridges of Madison County" but with an older woman and younger man, right down to the Italian accent, chopping veggies while falling in love in the kitchen, and an unhappy marriage. However, this book attempts to make itself a murder mystery, and ends up coming off as just eye-rolling and silly. It was literally hard to read at times.

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