Garden Lakes Av Jaime Clarke

<i>Garden Lakes</i>, Jaime Clarke''s third novel featuring Charlie Martens, finds Charlie employed as an Arizona newspaper columnist who has built his career on a deception he committed that inadvertently stirred up anti-immigrant sentiment, casting a pall over the state. But Charlie''s story is really one of serial deception, a life of prevarications he traces back to a summer fellowship program he attended while a junior at an all-boys prep school. The chosen fellows were tasked with undertaking supervised construction of a house in a half-built development donated to the school by the bankrupt developer. The fellows lived and worked together and were tested when a transient girl wandered into the development after the disappearance of both of the fellowship''s chaperones. What happened at <i>Garden Lakes</i> reverberates through everyone''s lives, but especially Charlie''s, which is forever altered by his actions that summer.