Hotel on Shadow Lake by author Daniela Tully is a sad and tragic historical fiction...

(Thank you NetGalley and the Publisher for allowing me to read and review this book)
Hotel on Shadow Lake by author Daniela Tully is about Maya Wiesberg and her grandmother, Martha.   In 1990, When Maya was 16 her father and Martha  sent Maya to the United States for a year. At the Munich  airport Martha leans and whispers into her ear as she departs, "Do for me what I couldn't". Maya thinks her grandmother means for her to travel, but that is the last time she ever sees her grandmother,  Martha goes missing while Maya is away.
 In 1990 Maya's grandmother receives a letter dated December 27, 1944. When Martha realizes the implications of this letter which could have changed her life choices for the past 46 years, she is hesitant about opening and reading the words.  She had lived in Germany during the time of Hitler's reign and she had experienced the terror of an uncertain life.
Now 25 years later Martha's remains have been found in the United States just 70 miles from Tarrytown, New York, where Maya had been for that year of school!  Maya travels to the last place her grandmother was known to have been in search for clues to her death.  The closest hotel to the place of her grandmother's death is at Shadow Lake!
I did need to go back and reread parts due to the different time periods. In the beginning of the book it is more about Martha's teenage interactions with her brother and Siegfried and the unrest of her community.
A sad and tragic historical fiction.