Moon Lake (published in German as Moon Lake – Eine verlorene Stadt ) is a 2021 crime thriller and Southern Gothic novel by Edgar Award-winning author Joe R. Lansdale . The story follows Daniel Russell, who returns to his East Texas hometown a decade after surviving a traumatic murder-suicide attempt by his father to uncover dark town secrets that have literally been submerged for years. Moon Lake by Joe R. Lansdale | Hachette Book Group