The Lake of Dead Languages, Carol Goodman
The Lake of Dead Languages, Carol Goodman
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The Lake of Dead Languages

Author: Carol Goodman

Narrator: Vivienne Benesch

Unabridged: 13 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/01/2007

Synopsis

Twenty years ago, Jane Hudson fled the Heart Lake School for Girls in the Adirondacks after a terrible tragedy. The week before graduation, three lives were taken, all victims of suicide. Only Jane was left to carry the burden of a mystery that has stayed hidden for more than two decades. Now Jane has returned as a Latin teacher, recently separated and hoping to make a fresh start with her young daughter. But ominous messages from the past dredge up forgotten memories. And once again, young, troubled girls are beginning to die.

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 Vivienne Benesch

Vivienne Benesch is a New York City–based actress who has appeared at the Roundabout Theatre, Lincoln Center, New York Shakespeare Festival, and Classical Stage Company, among others. Her television work includes Law and Order, Sex and the City, The Education of Max Bickford, and The Division.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kate on August 25, 2016

Hmm. One of those books you want to be done with but have to finish to see how it ends. Kind of a thriller, kind of a mystery. The narrator is a former student of all-girls' school Heart Lake who comes back to teach Latin as an adult. In her time there as a student, both of her roommates committed s......more

Goodreads review by Amy on August 17, 2012

Oh, wow...where to begin. There were elements of this book that I wanted to give 5 stars. The story, the plot, the intertwining of characters and their histories. A nice reveal at the end (although it was very predictable). The problem was the pacing. I felt like I was reading the book f...o...r...e......more

Goodreads review by Olivia on September 17, 2021

For fans of dark academia, gothic tales. The Lake of Dead Languages spends takes its time exploring all-consuming, toxic friendships, a love for Latin and classic literature, the breathlessness of first love, the darkness of one’s past and how it may come to haunt you, and how one’s world can come c......more

Goodreads review by Ellie on May 25, 2023

3.75 The setting for this was my favourite part, the lake felt like a character and the nature writing was beautiful, however if this is a good thing to you or not and as I was in the mood for it it did overall feel a very easy read for me and despite it lacking in a twist that wasn't guessable and......more

Goodreads review by Sheila on September 25, 2017

4 stars--I really liked it. I adore this book for its setting (a girls' boarding school), its plot (full of gothic twists and turns), and its Classical and literary allusions (the deer imagery, the poetry scraps, etc.). All the Goodman books I've read have had school settings (reflecting her own expe......more

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