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?

From the award-winning author of The Lake of Dead Languages comes a gripping read with emotion-charged twists and turns (Tess Gerritsen) about a professor accused of killing her student in a hit-and-run accident.Nan Lewisa creative writing professor at a university in upstate New Yorkis driving home from a faculty holiday party when she hits a deer. Yet when she gets out of her car to look for it, the deer is gone. Eager to get home before the oncoming snowstorm, Nan is forced to leave her car at the bottom of her snowy driveway to wait out the longest night of the yearThe next morning, Nan is woken up by a police officer at her door with terrible newsone of her students, Leia Dawson, was killed in a hit-and-run on River Road the night before, and because of the damage to her car, Nan is a suspect. In the days following the accident, Nan finds herself shunned by the same community that rallied around her when her own daughter was killed in an eerily similar accident six years prior. When Nan begins finding disturbing tokens that recall the her daughters death, Nan suspects that the two accidents are connected.As she digs further, she discovers that everyone around her, including Leia, has been hiding secrets. But can she uncover them, clear her name, and figure out who really killed Leia before her life is destroyed for ever?

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 her enthralling novels of literary suspense, Carol Goodman writes stories that resonate with emotion set in lush landscapes that entice the senses. Now, with The Ghost Orchid, a narrative that seamlessly weaves together the past and the present, Goodman creates her most lyrical and haunting work to date. For more than one hundred years, creative souls have traveled to Upstate New York to work under the captivating spell of the Bosco estate. Cradled in silence, inspired by the rough beauty of overgrown gardens and crumbling statuary, these chosen few fashion masterworksand have cemented Boscos reputation as a premier artists colony. This season, five talented artists-in-residence find themselves drawn to the history of Bosco, from the extensive network of fountains that were once its centerpiece but have long since run dry to the story of its enigmatic founder, Aurora Latham, and the series of tragic events that occurred more than a century ago.Ellis Brooks, a first-time novelist, has come to Bosco to write a book based on Aurora and the infamous summer of 1893, when wealthy, powerful Milo Latham brought the notorious medium Corinth Blackwell to the estate to help his wife contact three of the couples children, lost the winter before in a diphtheria epidemic. But when a seance turned deadly, Corinth and her alleged accomplice, Tom Quinn, disappeared, taking with them the Lathams only surviving child. The more time she spends at Bosco, the more Ellis becomes convinced that there is an even darker, more sinister end to the story. And shes not alone: biographer Bethesda Graham uncovers stunning revelations about Milo and Corinth; landscape architect David Fox discovers a series of hidden tunnels underneath the gardens; poet Zalman Bronsky hears the long-dry fountains waters beckoning him; and novelist Nat Loomis feels something lingering just out of reach.After a bizarre series of accidents befalls them, the group cannot deny the connections between the long ago and now, the living and the dead . . . as Ellis realizes that the tangled truth may ensnare them all in its cool embrace.

Carol Goodmans Blythewoodis reminiscent of both Harry Potter and The Diviners, but in a way that doesnt distract from the entertaining story within."*After narrowly escaping death in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, seventeen-year-old Avaline Hall is sent to Blythewood Academy, the elite girls boarding school in New Yorks Hudson Valley that her mother attended years before. Ava hopes to solve the mystery of her mothers death and its connection to the students who keep disappearing from Blythewood. But the school is not all that it appears . . . and neither is the handsome young man who saved Ava from the fire. Whats the meaning of the extraordinary powers Ava possesses? Whos good and whos evil? And who has the right to make that distinction?*review of Blythewood by Forever Young Adult

Avaline Hall is no ordinary girl. Shes a student at Blythewood Academy, an elite boarding school that trains young women to defend human society from the shadowy forces that live among us. After the devastating events of her first year at Blythewood, Ava is eager to reunite with her friendsand with Raven, the compelling but elusive winged boy who makes her pulse race. She soon discovers, though, that the sinister Judicus van Drood hasnt finished wreaking havoc on Blythewoodand wants to use Ava and her classmates to attack a much bigger target.Avas the only one with any hope of stopping van Drood. But to scuttle his plans, she must reveal her deepest secret to everyone at Blythewood. Whats she willing to sacrifice to do whats righther school? Her love? Or her life?

For how thy memory has lingered on In spite of cruelest winters drear and howl By inner mirror seen; Ive dwelled upon, I must confess, my treachery most foul. Did Shakespeare pen a series of passionate sonnets, unknown to modern scholarship, ardently praising a mysterious dark-haired beauty? This tantalizing question is raised in a letter to literature professor Rose Asher. But the letters author, Roses star pupil, is not telling. A troubled, enigmatic young man, he plunged to his death in front of the colleges entire faculty, an apparent suicide. Determined to find the truth, Rose journeys from New York to Italy, back to the magnificent Tuscan villa where as an undergraduate she first fell in love. La Civetta is a dreamlike place, resplendent with the heady scent of lemon trees and the sunsets ocher wash across its bricks and cobbles. Once there Rose finds her first love still in residence. Torn between her mission and her rekindled feelings, Rose becomes enmeshed in a treacherous tangle of secrets and scandal. A folio containing what some believe to be one of Shakespeares lost sonnets has vanished, and literary immortality awaits whoever finds the manuscriptas do a vast Italian estate and a Hollywood movie deal. Uncertain whom she can trust and where she can turn, Rose races against time and unseen enemies in a bid to find the missing masterpiece. Lush, lyrical, and enthralling, The Sonnet Lover vividly brings to life the Tuscan countryside and the fascinating world of the Renaissance poets. Unmatched in her ability to evoke atmosphere and intrigue, Carol Goodman delivers her most ambitious and satisfying work to date, a seductive novel that skillfully propels its reader headlong to the final suspenseful page.

A world on the brink of war. All Avaline Hall wants is to enjoy her senior year at Blythewood Academy, the boarding school where shes been trained to defend humankind from forces of dark magic. But when Ava is shown a glimpse into the future in the enchanted Blythe Wood, she discovers that the evil Judicus van Drood is rallying nations into a war that seems destined to destroy both the human and faerie worlds. Only Ava and her allies have a chance at stopping van Drood, but how many must die in the process? And how can Ava and the boy she loves be together when everything around them is falling apart?

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler meets The Apothecary in this time-bending mystery from bestselling author Carol Goodman!The day Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, four thirteen-year-olds converge at the Metropolitan Museum of Art where an eccentric curator is seeking four uncommonly brave souls to track down the hidden pages of the Kelmsbury Manuscript, an ancient book of Arthurian legends that lies scattered within the museums collection, and that holds the key to preventing a second attack on American soil. When Madge, Joe, Kiku, and Walt agree to help, they have no idea that the Kelmsbury is already working its magic on them. But they begin to develop extraordinary powers and experience the feelings of King Arthur, Queen Guinevere, Morgan le Fay, and Lancelot: courage, friendship, love...and betrayal. Are they playing out a legend thats already been lived, over and over, across the ages? Or can the Metropolitans forge their own story?

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 thats 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 shes made in her own life, she begins to fear that by coming to Arcadia Falls shes put herself and her daughter in danger.

The eruption of Italys Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 buried a city and its people, their treasures and secrets. Centuries later, echoes of this disaster resonate with profound consequences in the life of classics professor Sophie Chase.Beneath layers of volcanic ash lies the Villa della Notte - the Night Villa - once home to the captivating slave girl at the heart of an ancient controversy. And concealed in a subterranean labyrinth rests a cache of antique documents believed lost to the ages: a prize too alluring for Sophie to resist. But whatever shocking events transpired in the face of Vesuviuss fury has led to deeper intrigues - and Sophie is swiftly sucked into their dark and terrifying vortex . . .

As an undergraduate, Renaissance poetry lecturer Dr Rose Asher spent a year in Tuscany at the villa La Civetta - once the home of poet, Ginevra de Laura, who, according to local legend, was the infamous dark lady of Shakespeares sonnets, and the great love of his life.When Roses most gifted student, Robin Weiss, dies in mysterious circumstances, Rose finds herself reluctantly agreeing to return to La Civetta in an attempt to find answers. The screenplay Robin wrote just before his death controversially suggested that the love affair between Shakespeare and his dark lady was conducted on Italian soil. It has garnered Hollywood interest and much professional rivalry among Roses academic colleagues - who are all intent on finding out the truth. But if Robin had indeed discovered proof of Shakespeares connections to La Civetta, was it really a literary coup worth killing for?

You have only to call my name to bring me back, he whispered, his breath hot in my ear. You have only to love me to make me human.Seduced by a powerful incubus demon, Callie has succeeded in banishing him to the Borderlands but Liam still haunts her dreams, tempting her with the knowledge of how to bring him back.But loving an incubus usually ends in death for a human. For her own sake, Callie must learn to control her desires and ensure Liam remains trapped for all eternity in his watery prison.Only there is a more dangerous creature than Liam in the Borderlands. The Water Witch is looking for a way back