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Serene on the surface, the ivy-clad, tree-lined campus gives few clues to the schools history of special privileges, petty corruptions, and hidden allegiances. But as autumn advances, the affable smiles and pretenses of virtue wear thin. And as winter...
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Praise for Boy in the Water
Once again, Dobyns has offered readers a thriller that is swift and smart and very, very spooky.
The Washington Post Book World
A shivery whodunit.
USA Today
Dobyns creates a haunted, troubled realm.
The Providence Sunday Journal
Nasty fun.
Daily News
The author has thoroughly mixed several genreshorror, the fiction of personal crisis, suspenseinto a weird and original concoction that is highly entertaining.
The Chicago Tribune
An atmospheric thriller.
San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle
Like the best thriller writers, Dobyns not only scares us with what is out there but also with what we find (or dont find) within ourselves.
Booklist
Mr. Dobyns is a masterly poet and shrewd mystery writer... moody and evocatively written.
Dallas Morning News
If you take Boy in the Water to the beach, take lots of sunscreen; you may sit longer than you planned, following this thriller to its intense conclusion.
Schenectady Gazette
[Dobynss] prose is fluent and the plot races along like clockwork.
The New York Times Book Review
Set in the New Hampshire mountains at remote Bishops Hill Academy, Dobynss new novel succeeds... Recommended for all mystery collections.
Library Journal
Also by Stephen Dobyns
POETRY
Winters Journey
Mystery, So Long
The Porcupines Kisses
Pallbearers Envying the One Who Rides
Common Carnage
Velocities: New and Selected Poems, 19661992
Body Traffic
Cemetery Nights
Black Dog, Red Dog
The Balthus Poems
Heat Death
Griffon
Concurring Beasts
NONFICTION
Next Word, Better Word: The Craft of Writing Poetry
Best Words, Best Order: Essays on Poetry
STORIES
Eating Naked
NOVELS
Is Fat Bob Dead Yet?
The Burn Palace
Saratoga Strongbox
The Church of Dead Girls
Saratoga Fleshpot
Saratoga Backtalk
The Wrestlers Cruel Study
Saratoga Haunting
After Shocks/Near Escapes
Saratoga Hexameter
The House on Alexandrine
Saratoga Bestiary
The Two Deaths of Seora Puccini
A Boat off the Coast
Saratoga Snapper
Cold Dog Soup
Saratoga Headhunter
Dancer with One Leg
Saratoga Swimmer
Saratoga Longshot
A Man of Little Evils
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First trade paperback edition 2001 by St. Martins Press
Originally published by Metropolitan Books copyright 1999 by Stephen Dobyns
Copyright 1999 by Stephen Dobyns
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Dobyns, Stephen.
Boy in the water : a novel / Stephen Dobyns.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-1-101-99179-4
1. Preparatory schoolsFiction. 2. New HampshireFiction. 3. Good and evilFiction. 4. Psychological fiction. I. Title.
PS3554.O2B69 2015 2015017236
813'.54dc23
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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Everything that happens is as normal and expected as the spring rose or summer fruit; this is true of sickness, death, slander, intrigue, and all the other things that entertain or trouble imprudent men.
MARCUS AURELIUS , MEDITATIONS
L ike a black island on a turquoise sea, the dark shape floated on the surface of the water, lit from beneath by a string of underwater spotlights evenly spaced along the twenty-five yards of the swimming pool. They gave off the only light apart from the glow of a red exit sign above the door. The shape at first looked like a barrel or log. It took a moment to realize that it was a body: a boy, naked except for a pair of white Jockey shorts. He was small for his age and quite slender. Perhaps he was thirteenan eighth grader. Only the boys torso and the back of his head rose above the surface; his arms and legs hung down toward the black lines that ran the length of the pools bottom. His elbows were bent and his fingers were curved and relaxed, as if he had been holding something but had just let it go. The underwater lights made the air shimmer above the water and formed rippling shadows on the green cinder-block walls and tile ceiling.
Something small with pointed ears and a bedraggled tail stepped gingerly across the boys back, tentatively lifting and shaking one paw after another as it moved along the boys shoulder blades. It mewed and the sound echoed throughout the pool area. When the creature turned and its full silhouette became visible against the turquoise, one could see it was a kitten stranded on this dark island, stepping lightly from one part of the boys back to another, seeking the highest spot, while its movement caused the body to bob and turn very slightly. As a trickle of water ran across the boys skin, the kitten reared up like a miniature horse to keep its paws from getting wet.
One side of the boys body was white as parchment, lit up by the row of underwater lights. The other side was dark. His long red hair floated on the water in a ragged fringe. The kitten continued to mew and pace across the body as the turquoise light flickered and the boys shadow drifted like a dark swimmer across the left-hand wall. The kittens fur was orange-colored, and the orange of its fur and the red of the boys hair seemed significant, as if there were a family connection. It was warm and humid in the large room and the air smelled of chlorine and mold.
Two men stood at the shallow end, watching. Their backs were to the door and together they formed two black silhouettes.
When did you find him? asked the one in an Irish fishermans hat.
Half an hour ago.
And were the only ones who know?
Except for whoever put him there.
The kitten paused and arched its back, and its damp fur bristled. Then it began to mew frantically.
Do we call the police? asked the bareheaded one.
Let someone else do it.
Youre taking a chance.
I see no reason to think so.
Both men wore heavy overcoats, giving off an odor of damp wool.
And is this what you were expecting?
No, but it will do.
Outside it was snowing, as it had been for the past ten hours. More than a foot had fallen and the snow spread its white, uninterrupted surface across the lawns and playing fields to the edge of the forest. A half-moon glowed dully behind the clouds so one could make out the schools buildings: five two- and three-story structures built in the nineteenth century and laid out in the shape of the letter
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