The Palm Reader

When someone from a friend group dies, the secrets do not die with her. Four women--Casey, Elle, Kathy, and Lauren--were barely adults when they met and became friends at Northwestern University. Their friendship grew over the four years they spent at college, and when their time together came to an end, they held on tight to their ties of love and sympathy.

Casey, after a successful career as an artist, returned home to Cape May, New Jersey, where she met her partner, Alice. Kathy married a...