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Artfully imagined, intricately detailed, eerily poignant: they are the outstanding top features of Carol Goodman’s literary thrillers. She actually is part novelist, part craftsman—and The Drowning Tree is her most recent masterpiece.
Juno McKay intended to avoid the near by campus of her alma mater during her fifteenth reunion weekend, but she just can’t turn down the opportunity to see her longtime friend, Christine Webb, speak at the Penrose College or university collection. Though Juno cringes at the unavoidable chat of the motherhood that kept her from graduating, and of her partner, Neil Buchwald, who ended up in a mental medical center only 2 yrs after their wedding, Juno endures the gossip on her behalf friend’s sake. Christine’s lecture directs shockwaves through the rapt group when she reveals little-known details about the lives of two sisters, Eugenie and Clare—people of the powerful and important family whose name the college bears. Christine’s revelation throws shadows of betrayal, lust, and insanity onto the family’s recognized facade.
But after the lecture, Christine seems faraway, uneasy, and unhappy. The very next day, she disappears. Juno immediately suspects a link with her friend’s stunning talk. Although painfully reminded of her own experience with Neil’s mental health problems, Juno nevertheless peels away the layers of secrets and madness that surround the Penrose dynasty. She worries that Christine learned something damning about them, perhaps even something worth killing for. And Juno is determined to find it—for herself, on her behalf friend, and on her behalf long-lost partner.
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