Carol Goodman
4 SeriesCarol Goodman is an American author who debuted with the bestselling novel *The Lake of Dead Languages*. She has been nominated twice for the MPAC award and the Simon & Schuster/Mary Higgins Clark Award. Goodman won the Hammett Prize for Literary Excellence in Crime Writing for her second novel, *The Seduction of Water*.
In Carol Goodman's "The Sea of Lost Girls," Tess, a teacher at an elite boarding school, struggles to keep her past buried until a late-night text from her son Rudy, who is covered in a dark stain, disrupts her life. The next morning, Tess learns that Rudy's girlfriend Lila has been found dead on the beach, thrusting her family into the center of an investigation. As the school's secrets unravel, Tess discovers that her husband is also under scrutiny, and the family faces attacks from all sides. The more Tess learns, the more she realizes that some skeletons were never meant to stay hidden.
