There are thirteen knives. One by one they begin to disappear

Nora didn't expect Hidden Lake Camp to be in a state of ruin. Dock full of rotten boards, smashed windows, cabins falling apart. To her new husband, Paul, the camp is the past he'd just as soon bury. Nora agreed to drive north with him to get his elderly parents settled while he makes enough repairs to sell the property. Only a few months, Paul said. The summer camp, however, and its deep lake have other plans.

After Nora's first meal with his difficult family, one knife-part of a prized collection-goes missing. By the time the fourth and fifth vanish from behind locked doors and out from under watchful eyes, Nora can barely sleep. There's talk of ghosts, secret rooms and someone at the summer camp found dead in the tall grass.

Unsettling, gripping, and totally original, Book of Knives is a literary thriller that shows how one person's unraveling can bring the whole house down.

"When Nora's new husband Paul receives some distressing news from his family, the couple agrees to drive to Hidden Lake, Paul's parents' summer campsite to fix up the run-down cabins. Nora has never met her Paul's family. Deep in the woods, surrounded by buried family secrets, Nora detects a different kind of hostility and unease at the camp. When the knives they use for cooking, fishing and butchering the camp's chickens are begin to disappear, tensions run high. Even when locked away, buried underground, or guarded overnight, one-by-one, the knives disappear. As the atmosphere at the camp becomes more unnerving and the family members turn against each other, the only thing Nora can do is look for a way out"--