Drowning with Others

Written by Linda Keir

Narrated by Christopher Lane, Lauren Ezzo and Emily Sutton-Smith

They have the perfect marriage. Did one of them kill to get it?

Prep school sweethearts Ian and Andi Copeland are envied by everyone they know. They have successful businesses, a beautiful house in St. Louis, and their eldest daughter, Cassidy, is following in their footsteps by attending prestigious Glenlake Academy. Then, a submerged car is dredged from the bottom of a swimming hole near the campus. So are the remains of a former writer-in-residence who vanished twenty years ago—during Ian and Andi’s senior year.

When Cassidy’s journalism class begins investigating the death, Ian and Andi’s high school secrets rise to the surface. Each has a troubled link to the man whose arrival and sudden disappearance once set the school on edge. And each had a reason to want him gone. As Cassidy unwittingly edges closer to the truth, unspoken words, locked away for decades, will force Ian and Andi to question what they really know—about themselves, about the past, and about a marriage built on a murderous lie.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brilliance Audio
• Release date: Oct 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9781799748601

Linda Keir

Linda Keir is the pen name for two authors who, between them, have published twelve novels. The Swing of Things is their first novel together. They are married…but not to each other.

Reviews for Drowning with Others

[Carolina Perez · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

It's ok... Nothing special, way too long for what it is.. i was waiting until the end to see if something interesting would happen but nothing did.

[Kim Franklin · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

There were a lot of flashbacks, but it was a good storyline.

[paulagalvan-323293 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I loved this book mainly because of the characters. The plot was okay, and the end was a little disappointing, but the characters were real and very likable. Ian and Andi were high school sweethearts at a posh boarding school when an unorthodox poetry teacher steals Andi's heart away. They get back together when the teacher, Dallas, disappears. Twenty years later they are happily married until a body is accidentally discovered trapped in a car at the bottom of Lake Loomis. When it's discovered that the body is none other than the missing Dallas, Ian, and Andi both struggle to understand how Andi's affair played a part in his death. Half the story is told through Ian and Andi's journal entries when they were seniors. The other half is told in real-time as the police and students of a journalism class, which includes their daughter Cassidy, delve into the mystery. Holding onto the love for their family, and a long legacy of supporting the school, they make surprising discoveries that they are forced to find a way to live with.

[jenniferrobb · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I believe this was one of my Amazon First Reads picks--and it was surprisingly good.Warning--Spoilers may follow. Read at your own discretion:*****The story alternates between the present day where Cassidy Copeland is attending the same boarding/prep school that her parents attended and the past when the Copelands were students there. Andi was apparently a literary prodigy and was allowed to take the senior seminar even before she was a senior. She's a bit disappointed that the year she's a senior (and expected to take the course) the writer in residence is a poet--and because she's a senior, she feels it would look odd if she opted out of the course. I'm still not clear if Andi really had good poetry chops or if Dallas was just saying that to entice her to have a relationship with him. She did seem to be a bit of a muse to his creativity as best I could tell. In any case, Andi breaks off her long-time relationship with Ian to secretly take up with Dallas. I wasn't clear on whether Dallas had multiple relationships--I think that he did but the only one we hear a lot about was his with Andi--and that she suspects Georgina of wanting to have one with him--at least until Georgina links up with Tommy. Cassidy is taking the senior seminar as a senior and her instructor is a journalist--who decides that the class will do a practical exercise in investigating Dallas's life after his body is found in a submerged car by a student who's trying to revive a one-time-tradition of the school that's since been prohibited. The investigation uncovers a lot of secrets. (Ones that I'll let readers discover on their own.) How Dallas died wasn't any of the scenarios I imagined (but figuring that out is not always my forte so other readers may find different.)