A breathtaking stand-alone thriller from the acclaimed, award-winning author of the Tess Monaghan series and LADY IN THE LAKE.
Made into a major film starring Dakota Fanning and Diane Lane
Exquisite as fine jewellery
A book full of rich, complex characters coupled with a gripping plot that's always one step ahead of the reader. And as with real life, it's the reader who's left to work out just who is the real victim in the this emotionally charged tale
Solidifies her position in the upper tier of today's suspense novelists ... With this book, much darker than any in her past series, Lippman shows she is an author willing to take risks in both writing and storytelling. Her deft handling of this disturbing material is sure to increase the breadth of her readership
A chilling study of mothers, daughters, love, and murder ... Lucid, tight, and compelling
Laura Lippman is among the select group of novelists who have invigorated the crime fiction arena with smart, innovative, and exciting work
[Lippman] only seems to be getting better
Lippman is the closest writer America has to Ruth Rendell
One of the best novelists around, period
Lippman has enriched literature as a whole
Every time Laura Lippman comes out with a new book, I get chills because I know I am back in the hands of the master. She is simply a brilliant novelist, an unflinching chronicler of life in America right now
"A book full of rich, complex characters coupled with a gripping plot that's always one step ahead of the reader. And as with real life, it's the reader who's left to work out just who is the real victim in the this emotionally charged tale."
Exquisite as fine jewellery.
Before becoming a full-time novelist, Laura Lippman was a newspaper reporter for many years. She has won just about every crime writing award going, including the Anthony Award and non genre awards for Literary Excellence. She lives in Baltimore with her partner, the writer David Simon, and their daughter.