Carol Goodman

For Iris Greenfeder, the sudden impulse to write a story about her mother, Katherine, leads to a shot at literary success - and a mystery....

The latest thriller from the internationally best-selling author of The Lake of Dead Languages and The Other Mother, a story of mistaken identities and missed chances, forgiveness, and vengeance....

At seventeen, Avaline Hall has already buried her mother, survived a horrific factory fire, and escaped from an insane asylum....

Novelist Ellis Brooks is writing a book based on the dark events that took place during the summer of 1893 at the Bosco estate. Milo Latham had brought in a medium to help his wife contact their three dead children - only to have the seance turn deadly and his remaining child abducted....

Lucy Harper still has traumatic memories and lingering health problems from the 2020 pandemic. So, when a new virus surfaces years later, she and her husband, Reed, seek refuge on his family’s private island off the coast of Maine....

An evocative tale of intrigue, romance, and treachery, The Night Villa, follows the fascinating lives of two remarkable women centuries apart....

Journalist Joan Lurie has written a seething article exposing a notorious newspaper tycoon as a sexual predator. But the night it goes live, she is brutally attacked. Traumatized and suffering the effects of a concussion, she moves into a highly secure apartment in Manhattan....

Tess has worked hard to keep her past buried, where it belongs. Now she’s the wife to a respected professor at an elite boarding school, where she also teaches. Her 17-year-old son, Rudy, whose dark moods and complicated behavior she’s long worried about, seems to be thriving....

When Daphne Marist and her infant daughter, Chloe, pull up the gravel drive to the home of Daphne's new employer, it feels like they've entered a whole new world....

Nan Lewis - a creative writing professor at a state university in upstate New York - is driving home from a faculty holiday party after finding out she's been denied tenure....

When Jess and Clare Martin move from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to their former college town in the Hudson River valley, they are hoping for rejuvenation....

A group of former classmates are trapped on their college campus—with a murderer among them....

Jane Eyre meets The Thirteenth Tale in this new modern gothic mystery from two-time Mary Higgins Clark Award–winner Carol Goodman, about a reclusive writer who is desperate to rewrite the past.

In debt after her husband's unexpected death, Meg Rosenthal secures a job as a teacher at an upstate New York boarding school....

Theirs was an idyllic friendship; their experiences together at Penrose College the very best that life could offer. But that was then....

Twenty years ago, Jane Hudson fled the Heart Lake School for Girls after three suicides happened the week before graduation. Now, Jane has returned as a Latin teacher. But ominous messages from the past dredge up forgotten memories. Once again, young, troubled girls are beginning to die....

In the latest thrilling suspense novel from Mary Higgins Clark Award–winning author Carol Goodman, a group of mystery authors gathers on a secluded Greek island for a writers retreat, only to discover that their enigmatic host has been murdered and everyone present is a suspect.

Avaline Hall is no ordinary girl. She's a student at Blythewood Academy, an elite boarding school that trains young women to defend human society from the shadowy forces....

Robin Weiss, a talented and ambitious student, definitely reminds Rose Asher of Bruno Brunelli, the man she loved years ago during a semester in Italy. But soon Robin dies under mysterious circumstances and in a farewell letter directs his teacher to a library archive in Florence....

The day Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, four 13-year-olds converge at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where an eccentric curator is seeking four uncommonly brave souls....