Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Eight books about women keeping secrets

Midge Raymond is the author of the novels Floreana and My Last Continent, the short-story collection Forgetting English, and, with coauthor John Yunker, the mystery novel Devils Island. Her writing has appeared in TriQuarterly, Bellevue Literary Review, the Los Angeles Times magazine, Chicago Tribune, Poets & Writers, and many other publications. Raymond has taught at Boston University, Boston’s Grub Street Writers, Seattle’s Hugo House, and San Diego Writers, Ink. She lives in the Pacific Northwest, where she is co-founder of the boutique publisher Ashland Creek Press.

[The Page 69 Test: My Last Continent; Writers Read: Midge Raymond (June 2016)]

At CrimeReads Raymond tagged eight books "about women with secrets and how they hide them (from the world and within themselves) and how their secrets are devastatingly revealed to the other characters and to the reader." One title on the list:
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore

When Barbara Van Laar disappears from summer camp on the property that her family has owned for generations, it becomes clear she’s been keeping secrets. Yet she’s not the only one. As the search for Barbara launches, we get glimpses into her family’s dark history and the lives of those who surround the Van Laars, many of whom have secrets of their own. Narrated by myriad characters, this gripping novel reveals what lies hidden within the family as well as the community surrounding them.
Read about the other books on the list.

The God of the Woods is among Molly Odintz's eight thrillers & horror novels set at terrible summer camps.

--Marshal Zeringue