And they also feel like she's destroying his life. And a lot of people in the town are very angry with her because they wonder whether it really was rape. And the rape trial involves a girl called Kelly, who's also a teenager, who is accusing the town's golden boy of raping her. She's covering a rape trial, and she is also investigating Jenny's death. And so Rachel's effectively doing two things.

And her sister, who left as a child and has these memories, vague memories, of what happened that summer, is the one who's asking Rachel to investigate her sister's death because she believes that the truth never came out and that her death was covered up. And Jenny was a teenager whose death was attributed to drowning, never really investigated when she went through some traumatic time as a teenager in the town. And while she's there, she gets pulled into investigating the mysterious drowning of another girl 25 years earlier. She's exceptionally well known, much like 'Serial.' And she's gone to this town to cover a rape trial that's tearing the town apart. Would you just lay out for us who Rachel and Kelly and Hannah and Jenny are in your story? KELLY: So I want you to introduce us to - there's four women at the center of your story, your protagonist and then three women who she becomes drawn to investigating what happened to them. Megan Goldin, welcome to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. Megan Goldin wrote 'The Night Swim' and joins us now. The plot centers on a rape trial currently unfolding, also on a death, maybe a murder from 25 years before and whether the two possible crimes might possibly be linked.

Those words were written by William Faulkner in his book 'Requiem For A Nun.' They might as well have been written for or about a very different book, the new thriller 'The Night Swim.' It's set in a perfect little beach town that turns out to be anything but perfect.

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