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Artfully imagined, intricately detailed, eerily poignant: these would be the outstanding options that come with Carol Goodman’s fictional thrillers. She's part novelist, part craftsman—and The Drowning Tree is her latest masterpiece.Juno McKay meant to steer clear of the nearby campus of her alma mater during her fifteenth reunion weekend, but she simply can’t ignore the opportunity to observe her long-time friend, Christine Webb, talk in the Penrose University collection. Although Juno cringes in the talk of the maternity that kept her from graduating, and of her husband, Neil Buchwald, who wound up in a mental hospital just 2 yrs after their wedding, Juno continues the news for her friend’s benefit. Christine’s pitch sends shockwaves through the group when she reveals little-known factual statements about the lives of two siblings, Eugenie and Clare—members of the influential and strong family whose name the faculty bears.