Drowning with Others
Books | Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense
3.8
Linda Keir
They have the perfect marriage. Did one of them kill to get it? Prep school sweethearts Ian and Andi Copeland are envied by everyone they know. They have successful businesses, a beautiful house in St. Louis, and their eldest daughter, Cassidy, is following in their footsteps by attending prestigious Glenlake Academy. Then, a submerged car is dredged from the bottom of a swimming hole near the campus. So are the remains of a former writer-in-residence who vanished twenty years ago--during Ian and Andi's senior year. When Cassidy's journalism class begins investigating the death, Ian and Andi's high school secrets rise to the surface. Each has a troubled link to the man whose arrival and sudden disappearance once set the school on edge. And each had a reason to want him gone. As Cassidy unwittingly edges closer to the truth, unspoken words, locked away for decades, will force Ian and Andi to question what they really know--about themselves, about the past, and about a marriage built on a murderous lie.
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Author
Linda Keir
Pages
384
Publisher
Amazon Publishing
Published Date
2019
ISBN
1542041457 9781542041454
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"I enjoyed this book until the very end. It seemed to me like the book was doing a good job hammering home the point of secrets causing pain and the benefit of working through those secrets. Then in the end the parents decide to keep the most terrible secret of all, the corruption of the school and the complicity in sexual abuse of young women. For the love of god, the family sends their youngest kids to the school, apparently without any qualms. They don’t work at all to protect the real victims from future predators, and instead Andi decides to posthumously publish her rapists poems. Sure, that must make up for the punishment of death not matching the crime of statutory and actual rape. And sure, it must be great to have your oldest daughter falsely believe that she caused justice to happen when unreal life she just didn’t grok how corrupt and forked up the system was."