The Lake of Dead Languages
by:
Carol Goodman (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780345490919 (0345490916)
Publish date: December 27th 2005
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Pages no: 358
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.
11 years ago
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