Thirty years ago two sisters disappeared from a shopping mall. Their bodies were never found and those familiar with the case have always been tortured by these questions: How do you kidnap two girls? Who'or what'could have lured the two sisters away from a busy mall on a Saturday afternoon without leaving behind a single clue or witness?
Now a clearly disoriented woman involved in a rush-hour hit-and-run claims to be the younger of the long-gone Bethany sisters. But her involuntary admission and subsequent attempt to stonewall investigators only deepens the mystery. Where...
Thirty years ago two sisters disappeared from a shopping mall. Their bodies were never found and those familiar with the case have always been tort...
Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan--first introduced in the classic Baltimore Blues--must protect an up-and-coming Hollywood actress, but when murder strikes on a TV set, the unflappable PI discovers everyone's got a secret.
- A] welcome addition to Tess Monaghan's adventures and an insightful look at the desperation that drives those grasping for a shot at fame and those who will do anything to keep it.---San Francisco...
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Regardless of its validity, many adults share a belief that today s youth face an inauspicious future. Drugs, sex, violence, disintegration of the nuclear family, technology that replaces interpersonal relationships that s what you hear in the news. The media, through its dramatization of the dangers and risks children confront and pose, have created a well-established image of disenfranchised, hostile, and often-destructive children and adolescents. This image ignores the many children who are thriving as well as the possibility of positive outcomes for children and youth.
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Regardless of its validity, many adults share a belief that today s youth face an inauspicious future. Drugs, sex, violence, disintegration of the ...
-From its gripping opening pages...Life Sentences may be the most absorbing, entertaining mystery published in the last year.---Boston GlobeUSA Today calls Laura Lippman, -A writing powerhouse, - and Life Sentences powerfully confirms it. Past and present, truth and memory collide in this searing novel from a New York Times bestselling author whose novels have won virtually every major prize bestowed for crime fiction--from the Edgar(R) to the Anthony to the Agatha to the Nero Wolfe Award. As she did in her blockbuster...
-From its gripping opening pages...Life Sentences may be the most absorbing, entertaining mystery published in the last year.---Bosto...
One of the most acclaimed and honored writers in the field of crime fiction, Laura Lippman offers readers a gripping tale of deception and delusion, of family wounds and betrayals.
Thirty years ago, the Bethany girls, ages eleven and fifteen, disappeared from a Baltimore shopping mall. They never returned, their bodies were never recovered, and only painful questions remain. Now, in the aftermath of a rush-hour hit-and-run accident, a clearly disoriented woman is claiming to be Heather, the younger Bethany sister. Not a shred of evidence supports her story, and every lead she...
One of the most acclaimed and honored writers in the field of crime fiction, Laura Lippman offers readers a gripping tale of deception and delusion...
-Lippman is a writing powerhouse.---USA TodayNew York Times bestselling author and winner of every major prize awarded for crime fiction--including the Edgar(R), Anthony, Shamus, Agatha, and Nero Wolfe Awards--Laura Lippman brilliantly demonstrates her astonishing agility as a short story writer with Hardly Knew Her. A sterling collection of sixteen suspenseful short fictions and novellas--most set in and around her beloved Baltimore and several featuring her popular series character private investigator Tess Monaghan--Hardly Knew Her was...
-Lippman is a writing powerhouse.---USA TodayNew York Times bestselling author and winner of every major prize award...
-Lippman is a writing powerhouse.---USA TodayNew York Times bestselling author and winner of every major prize awarded for crime fiction--including the Edgar(R), Anthony, Shamus, Agatha, and Nero Wolfe Awards--Laura Lippman brilliantly demonstrates her astonishing agility as a short story writer with Hardly Knew Her. A sterling collection of sixteen suspenseful short fictions and novellas--most set in and around her beloved Baltimore and several featuring her popular series character private investigator Tess Monaghan--Hardly Knew Her was...
-Lippman is a writing powerhouse.---USA TodayNew York Times bestselling author and winner of every major prize award...
Author Cassandra Fallows believes she may have found the story that could become her next bestseller. When she was a girl growing up in a racially diverse middle-class neighborhood in Baltimore, a shy, quiet, unobtrusive child named Calliope Jenkins orbited Cassandra's circle of friends. Later Calliope would be accused of an unspeakable crime and would spend seven years in prison for refusing to speak about it. But by delving too deeply into Calliope's dark secrets, Cassandra may inadvertently unearth a few of her own--forcing her to reexamine the memories she holds most precious, as the...
Author Cassandra Fallows believes she may have found the story that could become her next bestseller. When she was a girl growing up in a racially ...
-Laura Lippman is among the select group of novelists who have invigorated the crime fiction arena with smart, innovative, and exciting work.- --George Pelecanos
-Lippman's taut, mesmerizing, and exceptionally smart drama of predator and prey is at once unusually sensitive and utterly compelling. --Booklist
Laura Lippman, New York Times bestselling author of What the Dead Know, Life Sentences, and the acclaimed Tess Monaghan p.i. series, delivers a stunning stand-alone novel that explores the lasting effects on lives touched by crime. With...
-Laura Lippman is among the select group of novelists who have invigorated the crime fiction arena with smart, innovative, and exciting work.-
-Lippman is a writing powerhouse. - --USA Today-I love her books.- --Harlan Coben New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman--winner of the Edgar(R) Award and every other major literary prize given for mystery and crime fiction--embroils Baltimore p.i. Tess Monaghan in the strange case of The Girl in the Green Raincoat. Originally serialized in the New York Times, The Girl in the Green Raincoat is now in book form for the very first time--a masterful thriller in the Alfred Hitchcock mode that places a very pregnant,...
-Lippman is a writing powerhouse. - --USA Today-I love her books.- --Harlan Coben New York Times b...