The Ghost Orchid, Carol Goodman
The Ghost Orchid, Carol Goodman
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The Ghost Orchid

Author: Carol Goodman

Narrator: Jen Taylor

Unabridged: 11 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/01/2007

Synopsis

For more than a hundred years, creative souls have traveled to the Bosco estate to live and work under its captivating spell. Novelist Ellis Brooks is writing a book based on the dark events that took place during the summer of 1893. All she knows is that the wealthy Milo Latham brought in a psychic medium to help his wife contact their three dead children—only to have the s├®ance turn deadly, and his remaining child abducted. As Ellis uncovers the Latham family's dark secrets, a series of bizarre accidents occur. The lines between past and present, living and dead blur, until the tangled truth threatens to ensnare all it touches.

About Carol Goodman

Carol Goodman (a.k.a. Juliet Dark) is a critically acclaimed literary suspense writer. Her novels have won the Hammett Prize and the Mary Higgins Clark Award and have been nominated for the Dublin/IMPAC Award and the Nero Wolfe Award. After graduating from Vassar College, where she majored in Latin, she taught Latin for several years in Austin, Texas. She then received an MFA degree in fiction from the New School University, where she teaches writing.

About Jen Taylor

Jen Taylor is a voice actress best known for her role as Cortana in various Halo games and as Zoey in Left 4 Dead. In addition to her voice-over work, Taylor is also an accomplished stage actress and has appeared in a number of films and television series.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rainz on August 01, 2020

A past mystery, an artists retreat, a huge rambling mansion, romance,suspense and paranormal effects, doesn't it make a staple for a surefire thriller? Then Carol Goodman has essentially done that. The Ghost Orchid is an engaging thriller, there's seances, physics, ghost children, underground tunnel......more

Goodreads review by Felisa on March 21, 2010

Reading a book you don't like but can't put down is a peculiar form of torture. As with the last book I read by Goodman (The Drowning Tree, which I really enjoyed) The Ghost Orchid is a little heavy on the symbolism and stuffed with allusions to 19th century art and literature. Both books hinge on a......more

Goodreads review by Tabitha on October 13, 2015

I truly enjoy this book, and come back to it every so often. It's become my spring tradition to revisit a Goodman novel and this year I was feeling Ghost Orchid. What's not to love? A writer's community flocking to a secluded artist commune in upstate New York. A mysterious haunted past, laced with......more

Goodreads review by Brooke on October 20, 2008

This time around, Carol Goodman serves up a ghost story with her signature solving-mysteries-from-the-past plot. The chapters alternate between the past and the present, and I really like the way they're linked together. The setting, a mansion with a sprawling garden populated by statues and a maze,......more

Goodreads review by Blair on April 30, 2015

The third Carol Goodman book I've read, this wasn't as good as The Lake of Dead Languages but redeemed the author in my eyes significantly after the uninspired Arcadia Falls, and it was actually more original than both. The alternate chapters moving between past and present worked well as they kept......more

Quotes

“A classic page-turner for anyone who likes to be haunted by a good story.” Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel

“The Ghost Orchid is a compelling read: the language is stunningly simple; the characters believable and the plot skillfully riddled with page-turning tension.” Tampa Tribune

“Is this an updated Victorian drawing room mystery or a romance novel/crime fiction–cum–ghost story? Never mind. Enjoy the atmosphere. And enjoy the ride; its twists and turns mesmerize.” Publishers Weekly

“Goodman’s interest in this tale is with the dead, who become far more dimensional than the living. Taylor responds with enthusiasm by making them far more memorable than the untidy group of writers wintering at the estate.” AudioFile

“Goodman’s mastery of eerily atmospheric and richly intricate plots is nowhere more evident than in this deliciously menacing and harrowing tale of greed and avarice, where perception is reality, and where past and present collide with disastrous results.” Booklist

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