The Lake Of Dead Languages
by:
Carol Goodman (author)
Jane Hudson never thought she would return to Heart Lake. Her years there as a scholarship girl ended in a fatal and mysterious double tragedy. Now she is back, struggling to adjust to her new life teaching Latin and as a single mother. But the events that haunted her memories for so many years...
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Jane Hudson never thought she would return to Heart Lake. Her years there as a scholarship girl ended in a fatal and mysterious double tragedy. Now she is back, struggling to adjust to her new life teaching Latin and as a single mother. But the events that haunted her memories for so many years begin to recur in front of her eyes. It seems she alone can see what is happening, and only she will be able to prevent a second catastrophe...Surrounded by the lake that gives the school its name, steeped in history and overflowing with the emotions of teenage girls, Heart Lake guards its past - but cannot keep it hidden.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099435594 (0099435594)
Publish date: January 2nd 2003
Publisher: Arrow
Pages no: 440
Edition language: English
Book: The Lake of Dead Languages Author: Carol Goodman Genre: Fiction/School Life/Reconciliation/Friendship Summary (from back of Ballantine Books edition): Twenty years ago, Jane Hudson fled from the Heart Lake School for Girls in the Adirondacks after a terrible tragedy. The week before her ...
I loved this. I was pulled in from the beginning and the story would not let me go. I wanted to know who was the murderer and why. I suspected that one person was involved from the beginning but I did not know how. I was surprised how that person was involved and why. I liked this cast of characters...
I decided to read The Lake of Dead Languages for two reasons: some book blog compared it to The Secret History and I found a gently loved copy of it at the Strand over spring break. I had a feeling I would like this so I decided to save it as a reward for getting through something more difficult. ...
St Peters ans St Pauls Lavenham
TLoDL is a perfectly adequate mystery, but this sort of thing will always remind me of Donna Tart's excellent _The Secret History_. Very few books benefit by the comparison.
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