LAKEVIEW MYSTERY SERIES
The Lakeview series follows a group of young friends in a quiet lakeside town where nothing ever seems to happen—until it does. From missing heirlooms to long-buried secrets, each story begins with a small mystery that slowly reveals something much deeper. At the center of it all is a simple locket—an object that seems to connect the past and present in ways no one fully understands. With careful observation, steady courage, and a respect for truth, the Lakeview kids uncover answers that others have overlooked for years.
Book One
The LOCKET
In Lakeview, favors are written in pencil and debts in water.
When a newborn vanishes under the watch of the town’s most “respectable” men, the lakeshore closes ranks. Decades later, a quiet artist, a stubborn lawyer, and a reporter with too many questions tug at the old threads—discovering a ledger of hush-up adoptions, a judge’s private bargains, and a keepsake that has passed through too many hands to be innocent.
As the lake yields its secrets, loyalties splinter: families learn what was taken from them, and pillars of the community learn what it costs to stay standing. The past is never past in Lakeview—and the arrangement that protected a few can’t hold forever.
The Lakeview Arrangement is a small-town mystery of identity and belonging, told across years, about what a community will excuse to protect its own—and the one object that can’t be explained away.
Book Two
The Locket Book Two: Until He Comes
They thought the Circle was broken. They thought the truth was buried. They were wrong.
The secrets that haunted Lakeview haven’t gone away.
They’ve just gone deeper.
When Carla Reynolds uncovers a hidden cache of evidence tied to a dead reporter, she sets off a chain of events that threatens to expose decades of corruption. As she races to get the truth out, a new generation of young investigators—Mary, Daniel, Jimmy, Andrew, and Lisa Carmichael—begin to uncover how deeply their families were entangled in the town’s darkest crimes.
On the Reservation, WíyakA begins to remember who she really is... and who she lost.
And David, once the Boss’s loyal son, now watches from the shadows, ready to protect those he once failed.
As the Circle regathers in secret and the headlines begin to hit, power begins to unravel in Ashport and Ironwood. But those who built their legacy on stolen children and buried truths will not go quietly.
The past isn’t done with them yet.
Because the locket doesn’t just protect. It warns.
And what it promised… is still coming.
Book Three
The Locket Book Three: The Circle Breaks
Set in a dusky, atmospheric landscape, the cover features a weathered wooden dock stretching into the still, reflective waters of a lake. Towering evergreens silhouette the horizon under a storm-streaked sky. Hanging prominently in the foreground is an antique, copper-toned locket—its surface worn with age, its chain twisted as if by time itself. The locket glows faintly, drawing attention to the broken circle carved into its surface. Above, the title The Locket: Book Three – The Circle Breaks is rendered in a bold, serif font, evoking the solemnity and mystery at the heart of the series. Below, the author’s name, Chet Matterson, anchors the image with quiet authority.
This minimalist yet evocative design captures the novel’s central themes: memory, legacy, and the secrets buried beneath the surface of Lakeview’s haunted past.
Book Four
The Locket Book Four: The Hollow Below
The spiral has turned. The lock must close.
After generations of silence, the truth buried beneath Lakeview, Ashport, and the Reservation has begun to rise. The pendant holds five ovals—and the time has come for each locket to return.
WíyakA, Rachael, Vesper, Ester, and the Chief’s legacy converge at the edge of the spiral tomb, where memory and myth blur. As the Boss descends into the depths, the others must choose: carry the truth or let the silence win.
From hospital rooms to sacred ground, from mothers waking to children remembering, The Hollow Below brings the epic Locket series to its haunting and luminous conclusion.
Secrets will be unearthed. Stories will be told.
And the spiral… will finally rest.