The Drowning

3.5 thrilling stars for this puzzling mystery filled with highly detestable characters It's the end of summer at Camp Waukeelo and eight year old Joey Proctor is still scared of the water and hasn't learned to swim. Swim instructor Alex Mason isn't about to let Joey detract from his promise that......more

When the Author of this book was eight years old, he was left on a raft and told by a camp counselor that he had to either swim back (even though he did not know how to swim and was afraid of deep water) or stay on the raft and die. That memory stayed with him and became the inspiration for this nov......more

The story around the campfire at the boys’ summer camp is about a man named John Otis, who lives somewhere in the woods and snatches a boy from camp ever seven years. What does he do to the boy once he’s kidnapped him? The endless speculation keeps the boys up at night, especially when eight-year-ol......more

The Drowning, J. P. Smiths' seventh novel to date, is a dark and murky psychological thriller. It explores the propensity for a deep, dark secret buried long ago, and stored like all our repressed memories in the most inaccessible depths of our brain so as not to hurt us, to reappear. Sometimes they......more

The story starts with a group of young boys sitting around a campfire. The cam counselors are also there .... telling the kids about an urban legend. A man would kidnap a child every 7 years. That should be scary enough, but reality is much more frightening. Twenty years ago a camp counselor punished......more