The Lake of Dead Languages: A Novel (Ballantine Readers Circle)
by By Goodman, Carol
Category: Fiction , Literary

“A gothic and elegant page-turner.”—The Boston Globe  Twenty years ago, Jane Hudson  fled the Heart Lake School for Girls in the Adirondacks after a terrible tragedy.  The week before her graduation, in that sheltered wonderland, three lives were taken,  all victims of suicide. Only Jane was left to carry the burden of a mystery that  has stayed hidden in the depths of Heart Lake for more than two decades. Now Jane  has returned to the school 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 young, troubled girls are beginning to die again–as piece  by piece the shattering truth slowly floats to the surface. . . .