The Counselors
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Publisher Description
A USA TODAY BESTSELLER!
An INSTANT Indie Bestseller!
"A nervy, intense, and expertly crafted thriller that kept me hooked page after page. Dark secrets? Summer camp setting? Complex teen girls? Murder? Count me in. A simply stunning book." —Kathleen Glasgow, New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces, You'd Be Home Now, and The Agathas
From New York Times bestselling author Jessica Goodman comes a twisty new thriller about three best friends, one elite summer camp, and the dark secrets that lead to a body in the lake.
Camp Alpine Lake is the only place where Goldie Easton feels safe.
She’s always had a special connection to the place, even before she was old enough to attend. The camp is the lifeline of Roxwood, the small town she lives in. Alpine Lake provides jobs, money and prestige to the region. Few Roxwood locals, though, get to reap the rewards of living so close to the glam summer that camp, with its five-figure tuition and rich kids who have been dumped there for eight weeks by their powerful parents. Goldie's one of them.
Even with her "townie" background, Goldie has never felt more at home at camp and now she’s back as a counselor, desperate for summer to start and her best friends, Ava and Imogen, to arrive. Because Goldie has a terrible dark secret she’s been keeping and she is more in need of the comfort than ever.
But Goldie’s not the only person at camp who has been lying. When a teen turns up dead in the lake late one night, she knows that the death couldn’t have been an accident. She also knows that Ava was at the lake that same night.
What did Ava see and what does she know? Why hasn’t she said anything to Goldie about the death? Worse—what did Ava do?
But asking questions offers no answers, only broken bonds of lifelong friendship, with hidden danger and betrayals deeper than Goldie ever imagined.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The well-written characters of Goodman's (They'll Never Catch Us) mystery give new life, and crossover appeal, to a well-trod New England summer camp setting. Camp Alpine Lake, situated outside a small Vermont town, draws its campers from the ranks of the wealthy, and three of its longtime campers, now incoming counselors, have been best friends for a decade. Goldie Easton—18, presumed white, and the group's only townie—attends the camp tuition-free thanks to her parents' employment in the camp's infirmary and woodshop; she also harbors a secret concerning her hockey captain ex-boyfriend. With the arrival of white New Yorker Ava Cantor, progeny of an influential financier, and talented biracial (Japanese and white) Imogen Wexler, an actor from New Jersey, the recently out-of-touch friends get into the spirit of maintenance week: "No campers, no responsibilities." After campers arrive and a local is found dead at the camp's lake, though, the intrepid trio face growing danger as they try to solve sundry mysteries. A candid first-person narration alternates between past and present, interweaving summer hijinks with more serious fare, building a cast of intelligent, funny young women and a setting that offers many pleasures of the camp-thriller subgenre. Ages 14–up.
