Sunburn
“Cool and twisty.” (New York Times Book Review)
Wilde Lake
“Laura Lippman’s WILDE LAKE is one of her best and most personal. . . . Lippman’s novels are tough-minded, entertaining, heartfelt and wise . . . . She’s one of today’s essential writers, and this, her 20th novel, reminds us why.” (Washington Post)
Hush Hush
Library Journal Review Starred Review. In the 12th title in Lippman's best-selling series featuring Baltimore investigator Tess Monaghan (The Girl in the Green Raincoat), Tess is tasked with investigating a complex and disturbing woman. Melisandre Harris Dawes left her infant daughter unattended in a stifling hot car 12 years ago. After a lengthy murder trial […]
After I'm Gone
The New York Times – Janet Maslin Although Ms. Lippman derived her story from the real-life disappearance of a Baltimore crook and also bases Sandy on a real homicide detective, this novel's murder case springs strictly from her own fecund imagination…Ms. Lippman is able to sustain a remarkable degree of detail about all these characters […]
And When She Was Good
Overview When Hector Lewis told his daughter that she had a nothing face, it was just another bit of tossed-off cruelty from a man who specialized in harsh words. But now, Heloise considers it a blessing to know how to avoid attention. At home, she's merely a mom and a lobbyist with a good cause […]
The Most Dangerous Thing
Library Journal Gwen, Mickey, Sean, Tim, and Gordon spent their childhood summers exploring the lushly wooded forest of Leakin Park. The five of them were inseparable until they encountered a run-down cabin deep in the woods and the mysterious man who lived there. From this chance encounter comes a tragedy that impacts their lives as […]
I'd Know You Anywhere
The Washington Post – Patrick Anderson: I've read hundreds of thrillers in the past 10 years, and some have been excellent, but only a handful?thanks to their insights, their characterizations and the quality of their writing?could equal the best of today's literary fiction. Those few certainly include What the Dead Know and I'd Know You […]
Life Sentences
Kirkus Reviews: A writer discovers the power of silence in the latest stand-alone from Lippman (Hardly Knew Her, 2008, etc.). Author of two successful memoirs and a tepidly received novel, Cassandra Fallows is jolted by a reminder of her classmate, Calliope Jenkins, who served seven years in prison rather than reveal the whereabouts of her […]
What the Dead Know
Library Journal Review: Baltimore County's Det. Kevin Infante (who partnered Sergeant Lenhardt in Lippman's To the Power of Three) investigates a hit-and-run in which the driver claims to be one of two sisters who had gone missing in 1975 and were presumed dead. Tight-lipped about what happened and where she's been, the woman is willing […]