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Very interesting novel by Anita Shreve. "The Weight of Water" was a bit different than other novels by Shreve. She combined a gruesome murder of two women that took place off the coast of Maine in 1873 and a current day storyline. Jean is a photographer who is hired to take photos of the island where this murder took place so long ago. In her search for some older photos she comes across some documents that have obviously been ignored about the murders. She sneaks them from the archives and plans to copy and return them at a later date. It's obvious that the archives aren't aware of what they have and nothing has ever been done with the box of papers she was handed. A confession to the murders is in those documents and it is not from the person that was hanged for the crime. Events that take place on the sailboat that Jean is using to get to the island for the photos completely changes her life.