A Mystery that will keep you guessing through the last page! Elizabeth Blair has her childhood pegged; a kid different from the rest, isolated, insecure. But the drowning of a fourth-grade classmate infects her adulthood. Back in 1959, the big people of Echo Lake, Massachusetts professed that death doesn't trouble kids. If it does, they get over it quick. So, what is Elizabeth Blair doing thirty years later, returning to her hometown, wandering a cemetery, looking for Tommy Gray's grave? And what's up with those seven sketches she draws? Tommy Gray never should have drowned on that splendid April day; after all, he lived his entire ten short years on the shores of Echo Lake, bragging he was the best swimmer around. Did he drink that purple stuff? Why does Elizabeth's presence in Echo Lake agitate Rick Morton so much? Hideous truths surface from the murky depths of Echo Lake.