After falling head over heels for TIGER LILY last month, I picked THE VANISHING SEASON up on a whim. Girls are vanishing in Door County, and a ghost on Water Street watches it all, her POV sprinkled between that of Maggie's (who has just moved into the haunted house). But the ghost and serial killer angles are more of a sub-plot than the point of this novel. This is a story about growing up and first loves and messy heartache. It's about betrayal and forgiveness and small town friendships. Anderson is now 2/2 in making me cry. I think she is the master of slow burn friendships and romances; and tragic, heart-wrenching stories. 
 Originally reviewed here.