Ostensibly safely sequestered with their five closest friends and family, Lucy should feel at ease. 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. Lucy Harper still has traumatic memories and lingering health problems from the 2020 pandemic. Order signed copies from Carol’s fabulous local indie, Oblong Books.įrom two-time Mary Higgins Clark Award–winning author Carol Goodman comes a new mystery, about a group of friends isolated on a remote island with a history of foul play. Will the secret of what they did twenty-five years ago be revealed? Will any of them be alive at the end of the weekend to find out?

When an alumna dies in a shockingly similar way to the story she wrote, and then another succumbs to a similar fate, they realize someone has decided at long last to avenge the crimes of the past. Recriminations and old rivalries flare as they recall the writing projects they shared as classmates, including chilling horror stories they each wrote about their greatest fears. But as a storm descends, people begin to depart, leaving a group of alumni who were the last ones taught by the esteemed professor. On a cold December weekend after the fall semester has ended, guests gather on the vacant campus for the commemoratory event. Now, the college President is bringing together faculty, donors, and alumni to honor the victims from all those years ago. The Briarwood College community has never forgotten the double tragedy. It’s been twenty-five years since the shocking disappearance of a female student and the distinguished Creative Writing professor who died while searching for her. The twisty locked-room mystery from two-time Mary Higgins Clark Award–winning author Carol Goodman, about a group of former classmates trapped on their college campus-with a murderer among them.

The Secret by Carol Beach York