AT THE WATERS EDGE BY SARA GRUEN

This is the first book of Sara Gruen's I've read and loved every page of it.  Page turning, beautifully written novel about Madeline(Maddie) Hyde and her husband Ellis and his friend Hank. I felt as if I was living Maddie's life right there, every time I opened the book to read.  Maddie is dragged off,by her husband and his friend,  to Scotland during WWII to hunt the Loch Ness monster after making themselves shamefully drunk at a New Years party in Philadelphia.  After the horrible boat ride (a ship in their convoy was torpedoed) they find themselves at an inn with no electricity no running water and eating drawer porridge & whatever the inn's manager can hunt and kill.  Befriended by no one at first Maddie finally wins over the help (Meg) and the gentleman running the in Mr.Grant, who has a huge secret.  I fell in love with Maddie the first chapter!  The characters are so real and the writing so historical accurate you too will fall in love with AT THE WATERS EDGE!