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I love Carol Goodman’s books and I’m sure that this one will be no different. As always there’s a water element to everything I’ve read so far.

About the book: From Booklist
Juno McKay is thrilled when her best friend Christine returns to their upstate New York college, Penrose, to give a lecture about the stained-glass window Juno will be restoring. Christine shocks her audience when she theorizes that Augustus Penrose, the college’s founder, depicted his sister-in-law, Clare, not his wife, Eugenie, in the window. After the lecture, Juno finds Christine somewhat troubled and worries about her after she boards her train home. A week later, Juno and her 15-year-old daughter, Bea, kayak on the Hudson River to the Penrose estate, Astolat, where they discover a body: Christine….

I love Carol Goodman and started reading her when my bookclub read Lake of Dead Languages. I couldn’t put it down and have read most  of her other works since then. When I saw The Night Villa in the new book section of the library, I had to grab it!  Most of her books really make you think and are not completely predictable. (All of her books have something to do with water and judging by the cover, this one will as well.)

About the book: An evocativetale of intrigue, romance, and treachery, The Night Villa follows the fascinating lives of two remarkable women centuries apart. The eruption of Italy’s Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 buried a city and its people, their treasures and secrets. Centuries later, echoes of this disaster resonate with profound consequences in the life of classics professor Sophie Chase.

In the aftermath of a tragic shooting on the University of Texas campus, Sophie seeks sanctuary on the isle of Capri, immersing herself in her latest scholarly project alongside her colleagues, her star pupil, and their benefactor, the compelling yet enigmatic business mogul John Lyros….

I just finished The Ghost Orchid by Carol Goodman and this one, The Seduction of Water is coming due as well so I bumped it to the top of my pile.  The first book that I read of hers was The Lake of Dead Languages and it blew me away. I read it a couple of years ago and thought about it for weeks. Having just finished Ghost Orchid yesterday, I can say that I enjoyed it but since it wasn’t my first experience reading her, I was more used to her style and sort of knew where it was going. I’m curious to see if I enjoy this one as much or if it will be too predictable to me since the newness is gone.

I don’t know anything about this one and haven’t heard a thing but I do know that I LOVED Carol Goodman‘s  Lake of the Dead Languages so I’m betting that this will be a good one as well. I’m bumping it to the top of the list because it’s a library book.