CAROL GOODMAN

Carol Goodman´s new novel mixes history, mythology and an ancient mystery set in Italy.

For two hundred years, painters, poets and musicians have come to the Catskill Mountain village of Arcadia Falls to escape the pressures of modern life and pursue their artistic visions, and Arcadia College was founded with a mission to nurture young artists and writers. When Meg Rosenthal gets an offer to teach at Arcadia College, it seems a godsend - an escape from a life that's fallen apart. She hopes, too, that Arcadia Falls will be a place where she and her daughter Sally can find some peace and reconciliation. But even though Arcadia Falls proves to be even more beautiful then Meg imagined, it is hardly peaceful. Soon she begins to realize that the public story behind the school conceals deceit, betrayal, and perhaps even murder. As Meg struggles to reconcile the choices she's made in her own life, she begins to fear that by coming to Arcadia Falls she's put herself and her daughter in danger.

From two-time Mary Higgins Clark Awardwinning author Carol Goodman comes a new mystery, about a group of friends isolated on a remote island with a history of foul play."Carol Goodman is a brilliant writer, and she shines here. Gilly Macmillan, New York Times bestselling author Lucy Harper still has traumatic memories and lingering health problems from the 2020 pandemic. So, when a new virus surfaces years later, she and her husband, Reed, seek refuge on his familys private island off the coast of Maine. Ostensibly safely sequestered with their five closest friends and family, Lucy should feel at ease. So why does she feel the weight of the islands dark history pushing down on the group?As Lucy uncovers Reeds family secrets and the islands history as a quarantine hospital for typhus patients, she becomes obsessed with the past and feels her own grip on reality slipping. Tempers flare, strange signs appear in the woods, and accidents turn deadly. Is the island haunted by the dead? Or is someone amongst the living taking their revenge?

In her newest work, the critically acclaimed author of "The Lake of Dead Languages" and "The Seduction of Water" demonstrates how old secrets never truly remain buried.

Many years ago, Iris Greenfeder''s mother disappeared. They were living at Hotel Equinox where Iris''s father was the manager and where her mother wrote delicate, powerful fantasies. Then one day, she took a train and never returned. She was found dead in a hotel fire in Brooklyn, registered as another man''s wife. Returning to Hotel Equinox, Iris needs to find the truth about her mother; there are some clues in her writing, and others in the memories of those who knew her. Kay Greenfeder, it seems, was a women without a past. But as Iris begins to untangle the secrets of years before, she realises that the past was very different to what she had believed, and much more dangerous...

The secrets of the past never die. But they can kill- August Penrose created the stained glass 'Lady Window' to adorn the chapel of the university he founded for the daughters of the women who worked in his factory, the Rose Glass Works. Depicting his wife, Eugenie, as the Lady of Shallot, it's a mesmerising portrait that has come to embody the spirit of the school itself. But now, eighty years after it was created, the Lady Window is due for restoration. The task falls to former alumna Juno McKay. She's restoring it with the help of her friend, Christine Webb, an art historian who is researching the window for her thesis. Christine seems to have discovered some new evidence that suggests that Clare, not her sister Eugenie, was the subject for the Lady Window. But before Christine can discuss her findings with Juno, she's found dead in a boating accident that eerily echoes that fate of the Lady of Shallot. But did she drown or was it something more sinister? As June starts to make her own investigations into just how Christine died, she learns more about Augustus Penrose and his family. The Lady Window was not the only thing the Penroses' bequeathed to the world. Madness and deception also form part of their legacy- PRAISE for The Lake of Dead Languages: 'A highly-charged novel of suspense that will have you riveted to your chair' Woman and Home; 'Carol Goodman's first novel is a darkly atmospheric work that is part suspense, part coming of age and all-enthralling-It is a book that needs the roar of a fire to ward off its psychic chill' Denver Post PRAISE for The Seduction of Water 'A winning combination of erudition and accessibility makes this second novel a treat' Publishers' Weekly AUTHOR BIO: - Carol Goodman graduated from Vassar College where she majored in Latin. After teaching Latin for several years, she studied for an MFA in fiction. Her writing has been published in a number of literary magazines. She currently teaches writing and lives in Long Island, USA.

Agnes Corey, joven asistente de una pequeña editorial independiente, ha sido contratada por la misteriosa novelista Veronica St. Clair para transcribir la secuela de su éxito superventas de 1993, El secreto de Wyldcliffe Heights. St. Clair ha vivido aislada desde la publicacion de esa novela con reminiscencias de Jane Eyre, que coincidio con un terrible incendio en el que perdio la vista y quedo marcada de por vida. Cuando llega a la finca de St. Clair, un antiguo hospital psiquiatrico para mujeres descarriadas ubicado en el valle del Hudson, Agnes esta decidida a asegurarse de que los devotos admiradores de la novelista reciban la secuela que llevaban treinta años esperando.A medida que St. Clair va dictandole la historia, Agnes se da cuenta de que en el relato hay indicios que revelan los verdaderos y terrorificos acontecimientos que inspiraron la novela original tres decadas atras. La frontera entre realidad y ficcion se vuelve cada vez mas borrosa, y Agnes descubre secretos terribles sobre un asesinato sin resolver de hace mucho tiempo, que ademas guarda una sorprendente relacion con su propia vida. Conforme la retorcida narracion de St. Clair va impregnando su mente, Agnes comienza a temer por su propia cordura, y tambien por su seguridad. Con el fin de salvarse, debera descubrir que le ocurrio realmente a St. Clair y, al hacerlo, liberar las historias de todas las mujeres que fueron maltratadas en Wyldcliffe Heights.Perderse dentro de un libro puede ser peligroso. No todo el mundo logra encontrar la salida.Regreso a Wyldcliffe Heights plantea un misterio dentro de otro misterio rodeado de fantasmas y oscuros secretos familiares, y transporta al lector a lo largo de tres lineas temporales distintas, cada una de ellas cargada de engaños e intrigas. En este inteligente relato gotico cargado de locura, homicidios y venganza, los lectores quedaran cautivados por las tramas entrelazadas y no podran dejar de leer hasta llegar a la ultima pagina y descubrir el misterio. ¡Una lectura absorbente y adictiva!. B. R. MYERS

In the midst of a snowstorm, creative writing professor, Nan Lewis, thinks she hit a deer. But then a police officer tells her that her student, Leia Dawson, has been killed in a hit-and-run on River Road. And there is blood on Nans car. Nan finds herself reviled by the same community that supported her when her young daughter was killed in a similar accident six years ago. The people around her are hiding secrets shell have to uncover to clear her name and find out who really killed Leia

Agnes Corey, joven asistente de una pequeña editorial independiente, ha sido contratada por la misteriosa novelista Veronica St. Clair para transcribir la secuela de su exito superventas de 1993, El secreto de Wyldcliffe Heights. St. Clair ha vivido aislada desde la publicacion de esa novela con reminiscencias de Jane Eyre, que coincidio con un terrible incendio en el que perdio la vista y quedo marcada de por vida. Cuando llega a la finca de St. Clair, un antiguo hospital psiquiatrico para "mujeres descarriadas" ubicado en el valle del Hudson, Agnes esta decidida a asegurarse de que los devotos admiradores de la novelista reciban la secuela que llevaban treinta años esperando.A medida que St. Clair va dictandole la historia, Agnes se da cuenta de que en el relato hay indicios que revelan los verdaderos -y terrorificosaacontecimientos que inspiraron la novela original tres decadas atras. La frontera entre realidad y ficcion se vuelve cada vez mas borrosa, y Agnes descubre secretos terribles sobre un asesinato sin resolver de hace mucho tiempo, que ademas guarda una sorprendente relacion con su propia vida. Conforme la retorcida narracion de St. Clair va impregnando su mente, Agnes comienza a temer por su propia cordura, y tambien por su seguridad.