When the men find him, the boy’s legs look like they were run through a wood-chipper. He’s bleeding heavily and near death, but he still has strength to tell them of the monster that attacked him: a dark, massive creature that emerged from the bottom of the lake. The child dies before he can say more. Sheriff Billy Wintone has seen too much in this small Ozarks town to believe the delirious boy’s tale of a monster lurking under the lake’s dark waters. When another body is found chewed to pieces, the Sheriff begins to wonder what evil lies at the bottom of Big Water Lake.
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September's Books on Screen roundup includes the films Practical Magic 2 and Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie in theaters, along with The Love Hypothesis on Prime Video; the series premieres of "A Tale of Two Cities" on MGM+, "Marble Hall Murders" on PBS "Masterpiece," "Neagley" on Prime Video, and "The Final Problem" on Netflix; the season premieres of STARZ's "Outlander: Blood of My Blood," Apple TV's "Slow Horses," and ABC's "R.J. Decker"; the season finales of "Reacher" on Prime Video and "The Walking Dead: Dead City" on AMC; the continuation of Apple TV's "Dark Matter" and USA Network's "Anna Pigeon"; and the DVD/Blu-ray releases of Supergirl, Two Prosecutors and Girls Like Girls.