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The Lake of Dead Languages / The Seduction of Water by Carol Goodman
Lake of Dead Languages -- "When Jane Hudson returns to her high school alma mater, the Heart Lake School for Girls, as a Latin teacher, tragic events of the past begin to resurface. Twenty years earlier at Heart Lake, roommates Jane, Lucy and Deirdre were inseparable. They studied the classics together under the tutelage of the mesmerizing Helen Chambers, sneaking out for midnight skinny dipping in the lake and meeting Lucy's brother, Matt, in the sheltered woods of the campus. Their clandestine friendship ended in the winter of senior year, amid scandal and suicide. Only Jane knows the truth behind the mystery of Matt and the other girls' deaths and now, two decades later, the secret comes back to haunt her: someone has found her missing journal, written during that tragic time, and begins a macabre re-enactment of the past. When one of Jane's troubled young students is found dead in the frigid waters of Heart Lake, an apparent suicide, the school board suspects Jane is the harmful influence." -- from www.amazon.com
This was okay novel, though not my favorite of hers at all. I pretty much guessed ahead of time who the villian of the plot was and the end of this novel was hasty and rather flat.
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Seduction of Water -- "Water, from Iris Greenfeder's perspective, is the Hudson River. She has a view of it from her five-story walkup in New York City's westernmost Greenwich Village, and it shimmers in the distance from the Equinox, the Catskills hotel where Iris grew up. Her father, Ben, was the manager at the Equinox; her mother, Kay, a former maid, wrote two fantastical novels there. Driving the plot is the not-so-simple question: did Kay write a third novel, and is it hidden at the Equinox? Back at the hotel for the summer, Iris plans to write the story of her mother's life and search for the missing manuscript. As she attempts to solve the mystery, she is abetted and thwarted by a large cast of characters, including her mother's famous literary agent, the mega-millionaire owner of a hotel chain, the daughter of a famous suicidal poet, an all-knowing gardener and the delicious Aidan Barry, whom Iris meets while he's still in prison." -- from www.amazon.com
I liked this novel better than "The Lake of Dead Languages" but not as much as "The Night Villa". The plot of this one was intriguing and I liked the tie-in of Irish/Celtic folklore but the climax wasn't as suspenseful as it could have been.
The Lake of Dead Languages -- Started: Aug. 14, 2010 Finished: Aug. 14, 2010
The Seduction of Water -- Started: Aug. 14, 2010 Finished: Aug. 15, 2010
The Lake of Dead Languages / The Seduction of Water by Carol Goodman
Lake of Dead Languages -- "When Jane Hudson returns to her high school alma mater, the Heart Lake School for Girls, as a Latin teacher, tragic events of the past begin to resurface. Twenty years earlier at Heart Lake, roommates Jane, Lucy and Deirdre were inseparable. They studied the classics together under the tutelage of the mesmerizing Helen Chambers, sneaking out for midnight skinny dipping in the lake and meeting Lucy's brother, Matt, in the sheltered woods of the campus. Their clandestine friendship ended in the winter of senior year, amid scandal and suicide. Only Jane knows the truth behind the mystery of Matt and the other girls' deaths and now, two decades later, the secret comes back to haunt her: someone has found her missing journal, written during that tragic time, and begins a macabre re-enactment of the past. When one of Jane's troubled young students is found dead in the frigid waters of Heart Lake, an apparent suicide, the school board suspects Jane is the harmful influence." -- from www.amazon.com
This was okay novel, though not my favorite of hers at all. I pretty much guessed ahead of time who the villian of the plot was and the end of this novel was hasty and rather flat.
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Seduction of Water -- "Water, from Iris Greenfeder's perspective, is the Hudson River. She has a view of it from her five-story walkup in New York City's westernmost Greenwich Village, and it shimmers in the distance from the Equinox, the Catskills hotel where Iris grew up. Her father, Ben, was the manager at the Equinox; her mother, Kay, a former maid, wrote two fantastical novels there. Driving the plot is the not-so-simple question: did Kay write a third novel, and is it hidden at the Equinox? Back at the hotel for the summer, Iris plans to write the story of her mother's life and search for the missing manuscript. As she attempts to solve the mystery, she is abetted and thwarted by a large cast of characters, including her mother's famous literary agent, the mega-millionaire owner of a hotel chain, the daughter of a famous suicidal poet, an all-knowing gardener and the delicious Aidan Barry, whom Iris meets while he's still in prison." -- from www.amazon.com
I liked this novel better than "The Lake of Dead Languages" but not as much as "The Night Villa". The plot of this one was intriguing and I liked the tie-in of Irish/Celtic folklore but the climax wasn't as suspenseful as it could have been.
The Lake of Dead Languages -- Started: Aug. 14, 2010 Finished: Aug. 14, 2010
The Seduction of Water -- Started: Aug. 14, 2010 Finished: Aug. 15, 2010