Mystery/Thriller -- 3 stars
Years ago, a visiting poetry professor disappeared in the middle of the semester at a prestigious prep school. Andi Copeland was one of his students and her prep school sweetheart, now husband, was in one of the clubs the professor ran. Their daughter is now a student there, and the talk of the campus during parent weekend is the car found in the lake--a car that held the body of the long missing poetry professor. Secrets long held are about in unravel. ----- Entertaining, if not earth shattering. I couldn't help but compare it to Donna Tartt's The Secret History, and that is probably unfair because no one has been able to touch that book though many have tried. The characters are well presented, the pace is good, and the clues are meted out in a way that keeps you reading. The ending had a twist that turned into an unsatisfying conclusion which made the book more disappointing than it needed to be.
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