3 Novels by Laura Lippman
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Overview: Laura Lippman has been awarded every major prize in crime fiction. Since the publication of What the Dead Know, each of her hardcovers has hit the New York Times bestseller list. A recent recipient of the first-ever Mayor’s Prize, she lives in Baltimore, Maryland, and New Orleans with her husband, David Simon, their daughter, and her stepson.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
Every Secret Thing
It is early evening, summer time and hot. Two eleven year old girls, Alice and Ronnie, are on their way home from a swimming party when they happen to see a baby’s stroller, with baby girl sleeping inside, left unattended on the top step of a house. Ronnie says to Alice: ‘We have to take care of this baby.’ But what exactly does she mean? Four days later the body of little Olivia Barnes is discovered in a hut in Baltimore’s rambling Leakin Park by a young rookie detective, Nancy Porter. What can have happened in those four days to bring about this appalling crime? The girls are arrested and found guilty. Seven years later Ronnie and Alice, now eighteen, are released from their separate prisons, back into their old neighbourhood where the mother of baby Olivia still lives. Another child goes missing, and Nancy Porter and her partner get the case …
To the Power of Three
Baltimore police receive and urgent call out to Glendale High after gunshots are heard coming from a locked girls’ toilet. It appears that three girls are in there but only one, Joise, is conscious. She assures the police through the locked door that she’s not the shooter. She also insists that she cannot manage to unlock the door from the inside because of the injury she has suffered to her leg. After an janitor is summoned, the police cautiously enter the bathroom. They find three victims – Joise, who leg wound seems relatively superficial; Perri, who is unconcious from a bullet wound that has ripped through her jaw; and Katrina, who is dead, shot in the chest. The investigating team is led by Detective Harold Lenhardt – himself the father of adolescent girl. He soon develops information that is at odds with the story Josie is telling. While it seems likely that Perri brough the gun to school, the rest of Josie’s story is not supported by physical evidence. What’s more, other clues at the scene suggest there was a fourth girl who witnessed the entire episode from behind a locked stall. Where is she now? How did she get out? Some years before the fatal shooting in the locked room, growing up. As ever, she ratches up the suspense as she unfolds her story with grace, sympathy and acute intelligence.
And When She Was Good
Based on her acclaimed, multi-award-nominated short story Scratch a Woman, And When She Was Good is the powerfully gripping, intensely emotional story of a suburban madam, a convicted murderer whose sentence is about to be overturned, and the child they will both do anything to keep.
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