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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Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippm...
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.
With...
Regardless of its validity, many adults share a belief that today s youth face an inauspicious future. Drugs, sex, violence, disintegration of the ...
Brand-new stories by: David Simon, Laura Lippman, Tim Cockey, Rob Hiaasen, Robert Ward, Sujata Massey, Jack Bludis, Rafael Alvarez, Marcia Talley, Joseph Wallace, Lisa Respers France, Charlie Stella, Sarah Weinman, Dan Fesperman, Jim Fusilli, and Ben Neihart. Laura Lippman has lived in Baltimore most of her life and she would have spent even more time there if the editors of the "Sun" had agreed to hire her earlier. She attended public schools and has lived in several of the city's distinctive neighborhoods, including Dickeyville, Tuscany-Canterbury, Evergreen, and South Federal...
Brand-new stories by: David Simon, Laura Lippman, Tim Cockey, Rob Hiaasen, Robert Ward, Sujata Massey, Jack Bludis, Rafael Alvarez, Marcia Talley, Jos...
In a city like Baltimore, where someone is murdered almost on a daily basis, Attorney Michael Abramowitz's death should be just another statistic but for PI Tess Monaghan's boyfriend, who is in the frame, time is running short to prove his innocence.
In a city like Baltimore, where someone is murdered almost on a daily basis, Attorney Michael Abramowitz's death should be just another statistic but ...
Two eleven-year-old girls, Alice and Ronnie see a baby's stroller, with a 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'. Four days later the body of little Olivia Barnes is discovered in a hut in Baltimore's Leakin Park.
Two eleven-year-old girls, Alice and Ronnie see a baby's stroller, with a baby girl sleeping inside, left unattended on the top step of a house. Ronni...
The sixth instalment in Laura Lippman's acclaimed series of thrillers starring private investigator Tess Monaghan, this novel explores the strange cult of Edgar Allan Poe in a gripping tale of obsession.
The sixth instalment in Laura Lippman's acclaimed series of thrillers starring private investigator Tess Monaghan, this novel explores the strange cul...
-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...
