

The Night Villa
Author: Carol Goodman
Narrator: Susanna Burney
Unabridged: 12 hr 33 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 09/02/2008
Categories: Fiction
Author: Carol Goodman
Narrator: Susanna Burney
Unabridged: 12 hr 33 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 09/02/2008
Categories: Fiction
Carol Goodman (a.k.a. Juliet Dark) is a critically acclaimed literary suspense writer. Her novels have won the Hammett Prize and the Mary Higgins Clark Award and have been nominated for the Dublin/IMPAC Award and the Nero Wolfe Award. After graduating from Vassar College, where she majored in Latin, she taught Latin for several years in Austin, Texas. She then received an MFA degree in fiction from the New School University, where she teaches writing.
Susanna Burney has appeared in a wide range of plays on stages in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Minneapolis, and Seattle. Her favorite roles include Hamlet, Olga in Three Sisters, Mrs. Wilcox in a stage adaptation of Howard’s End, and as the solo performer in Man to Man, for which she was named best actress of the year in the Seattle weekly, the Stranger. She received her BFA in acting from Boston University.
I've always had a fondness for books that take two distinct story lines from two different times, and eventually intersect in a way you don't expect. This book, my first Carol Goodman novel, was a very satisfying read with its rich descriptions of Italy, now and then, and the weaving of a modern arc......more
I'm going back and forth on a two- or three-star rating for this book. There were things I liked about it. For instance, I thought the author did a very good job portraying the lingering trauma from the shooting at the college, and how Sophie's wounds and the loss of part of her lung affect her. I a......more
I want to write like Carol Goodman. I don't know how she does it: her writing evokes a response from the reader, making it very easy to visualize the scenery and action. So far, I've read Seduction of Water, Ghost Orchid, Night Villa and currently reading Arcadia Falls. The stories are fascinating an......more
The first quarter or so of this book was well written and intriguing, the next third was atmospheric and dark, and then it turned into the mystery it promised to be and I didn't like it as much. (I forget sometimes - the reason I don't read mysteries, especially the formulaic ones, is because I don'......more
I was writing recently about Pythagoras and, in course of what I could grandly call my researches, I came across reference to this novel, which features a modern Pythagorean cult. Since I enjoyed the same author's The Lake of Dead Languages a few years ago, I needed little further inducement to snap......more
[A] complex and lyrical literary thriller…Goodman deftly mixes cultural and religious history, geography, myth, personal memory, dream, and even portent—without sacrificing narrative drive—against the beautiful backdrop of the locale with its echoes of unimaginable loss.” Publishers Weekly
“Sophie Chase, the feisty and intelligent professor at the heart of this historical mystery, is aptly portrayed in Susanna Burney’s lively narration.” AudioFile
“Her darkest, most complex novel to date…Goodman always seamlessly blends present-day suspense with a mystery from the past…Highly recommended for all fiction collections.” Library Journal