Lake of Dead Languages

"...Carol Goodman gamely takes on the challenge of combining...two forms, hanging literary flesh on the skeleton of a thriller. Unfortunately, her ambition does her more credit than its results. The novel's twisting, drama-studded plot forces her characters into actions that rarely seem psychologically credible, yet her artfully laid symbols and foreshadowing spoil all the surprises long before the plot has time to spring them. It's too bad, because the two books yoked together here might have been powerful if they weren't at each other's throats."Goodman, Carol is the author of 'Lake of Dead Languages' with ISBN 9780345450890 and ISBN 0345450892.