Carol Goodman Books in Order

Jane Hudson returns to the Adirondack girls' school she once fled, hoping for a fresh start as a Latin teacher. Instead, old diary pages, threatening messages, and a new run of deaths pull her back into a tragedy that never really ended.

Struggling scholar Iris Greenfeder starts writing about her mother's long-ago death and is drawn back to the Catskills hotel where she grew up. Searching for a rumored final manuscript, she uncovers family secrets that were meant to stay buried.

At her college reunion, Juno McKay watches an old friend deliver a shocking lecture on the Penrose family, then vanish. Her search leads into secrets about madness, missing women, and the past she has spent years trying not to revisit.

At the crumbling Bosco artists' colony, first-time novelist Ellis Brooks investigates an 1893 séance, a vanished child, and the legend of medium Corinth Blackwell. The estate's beauty is matched only by the trouble buried in its history.

When a gifted student dies after hinting at lost Shakespeare sonnets, professor Rose Asher follows the trail to a Tuscan villa tied to her own past. A missing folio, old love, and literary ambition make every clue feel dangerous.

Classics professor Sophie Chase travels to Capri to study the ruins of a villa buried by Vesuvius. As she pieces together a slave girl's story, ancient documents and modern threats turn the dig into a race against erasure.

Widowed Meg Rosenthal takes a teaching job at an isolated upstate school, hoping to rebuild life with her daughter. After a student dies during a bonfire, fairy-tale lore and long-buried secrets turn the fresh start into something far darker.

Jewelry designer Garet James opens a mysterious silver box and discovers that old magic is alive in Manhattan. With a prophecy closing in and dark forces gathering, she must learn who she really is before the city pays the price.

Folklore professor Callie McFay arrives at Fairwick College and starts having vivid nightly visits from a stranger who turns out to be very real. As witches and fairies gather around her, desire and danger become impossible to separate.

Now burdened with her family's hidden legacy, Garet James follows vampire Will Hughes to Paris in search of a cure and a path to the Summer Country. Every answer pulls her deeper into magic, danger, and divided loyalties.

Peace does not last long for Callie McFay after the events of The Demon Lover. With the Grove moving against Fairwick's fey inhabitants, she must choose between blood ties, forbidden power, and the town she has come to love.

After her mother's death, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, and a stay in an asylum, Avaline Hall is sent to an elite Hudson Valley boarding school. There she finds secrets, strange visions, and a hidden war built into the school itself.

Fairwick is under hostile control, Callie's friends are scattered, and the only hope may lie in a legendary talisman. Her search for the Angel Stone sends her deep into magic, history, and an impossible choice between love and duty.

As the Watchtower, Garet James faces an ancient enemy loose in Paris and a plan that could throw the world into chaos. To stop it, she must work with uneasy allies and risk everything she still hopes to save.

Back at Blythewood, Ava hopes for a calmer year and more time with Raven, the winged boy she cannot forget. Instead, Judicus van Drood tightens his grip, and Ava must risk exposing her own secret to stop him.

Ava enters her final year at Blythewood just as visions of war reveal how close both the human and faerie worlds are to disaster. To stop van Drood, she and her allies will have to fight for a future that may demand real sacrifice.

After a bleak holiday party, professor Nan Lewis hits something on a snowy road and goes home shaken. By morning one of her students is dead, Nan is a suspect, and the case begins to echo the tragedy that killed her own daughter.

On the day Pearl Harbor is bombed, four New York kids meet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and are recruited to find a magical manuscript. The quest gives them strange powers and may be the only way to stop another attack.

Clare and Jess Martin take a caretaker job at a decaying Hudson Valley estate, hoping the move will rescue their marriage and finances. Instead, strange cries in the night and the house's grim history make Clare fear she is the next target.

Fleeing a controlling husband, Daphne Marist hides with her infant daughter in a Catskills mansion and takes a live-in job under a false name. Her intense friendship with another mother soon turns unsettling, intimate, and dangerous.

During a snowstorm, Alice escapes an abusive relationship with her young son and is taken in by Mattie, a middle-aged social worker living alone in the woods. Both women are hiding painful truths, and the storm gives those secrets nowhere to go.

Tess thinks her family's life at an elite boarding school is finally steady, until her son's girlfriend is found dead on the beach. As suspicion closes in on her husband and son, old mistakes and older school secrets come roaring back.

After exposing a powerful predator, journalist Joan Lurie is attacked and retreats to a secure Manhattan residence with a dark past. There, her story collides with an old murder and a widow who believes Joan knows more than she says.

Seeking safety during a new health scare, Lucy Harper and her husband retreat to his family's private island off Maine. But quarantine history, family secrets, and a string of deadly incidents make the island feel less like refuge than trap.

Former classmates gather at Briarwood College to remember a long-ago disappearance and the professor who died looking for answers. When a storm traps them on campus and deaths begin to mirror old student stories, memory turns lethal.

Editor Agnes Corey is hired to transcribe a long-awaited sequel from a scarred, reclusive author living on a ruined Hudson Valley estate. As fiction and confession blur, Agnes realizes the book is circling an old murder and her own past.

Fifteen years after a disastrous writers retreat, Maia Gold is invited back to the same Greek island for a second chance. Then the host turns up dead, and the returning guests have to sort through betrayal, ambition, and murder.

Mystery-writing spouses Fred and Thea Morgan-Lane arrive at an Italian castle conference ready to end their series, and maybe their marriage. Then deaths begin to copy the murders in their own novel, leaving them trapped in a story they wrote.