OK, gotta admit, this was not the genre I was expecting when I started reading.  Upstate New York Gothic is my third favorite type of Gothic (after OG British Gothic and Mexican Gothic), but it took me a minute to realize that this was not that.  Lack of girl school on the lake, to start with.  So what we are actually looking at is a missing child, actually two of them, story. The Van Laars are a wealthy banking family who own a large bit […]