Selected Book
Every Secret Thing
- Mass Market Paperback
- Author: Laura Lippman
- Publisher: Avon
- Release Date: October 2004
- ISBN-10: 0060506687
- ISBN-13: 9780060506681
- List Price: $7.99
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryTwo little girls banished from a neighborhood birthday party take a wrong turn down an unfamiliar Baltimore street—and encounter an abandoned stroller with an infant inside. What happens next is shocking and terrible, and three families are irreparably destroyed. Seven years later, Alice Manning and Ronnie Fuller, now eighteen, are released from "kid prison" to begin their lives over again. But the secrets swirling around the original crime continue to haunt the parents, the lawyers, the police—all the adults in Alice and Ronnie's lives. And now another child has disappeared, under freakishly similar circumstances ... |
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Was Not Left With a Good Feeling
Rating:
Ms. Lippman is a talented writer that is capable of taking you along for a ride.
I appreciate a good plot twist as much as anyone, but when this novel ended I felt like I had been duped. (I am not the type that necessarily tries to solve the mystery as I am reading, so yes, it is possible to suck me in.)
It seems that Ms. Lippman used her talent to play on the reader's sympathies. I walked away from this book feeling like I had rooted for the wrong team.
While I won't deny the author's skills as a novelist, this was not a feel-good experience.
On a constructive note, I would suggest Lippman's "What the Dead Know". While WTDK is not entirely uplifting, it is a twisting novel that succeeds in creating some sense of resolution and reconciliation in the end.
Enjoyable...
Rating:
This one I really liked. There was good detail about the characters, and the goings on around them. I look forward to reading more books by Laura Lippman.
Perfect Suspense
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Lippman continues to amaze me with her potent literary brew of suspense, spot-on character analysis, and just good old fashioned story-telling skills. This stand alone tale of two children caught up in a horrible crime and the ripple effect of that crime through the ensuing years is on a par with some of our finest authors of psychological suspense, including Ruth Rendell, Denise Mina, and Patricia Highsmith. I have yet to delve into Lippman's series books, but if her stand alone novels are any indication of her talent, I'm sure I won't be disappointed.
Murder Mystery Set In Baltimore
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Two eleven year old girls are kicked out of a pool party. As they walk home they encounter a young child in a carriage on her front porch. They think she's being neglected and take her to an abandoned cottage in a park. They think they will care for her as though she's a doll. She quickly gets sick. They conclude that the child is unhappy and then she's suffocated. She was the daughter of a former spokesperson for the mayor who herself is the daughter of a powerful Black judge. The girls are White. The deceased childs mother takes the incident as though it was racially motivated. After serving seven year sentences the girls are released. Another small child very much resembling the original victim is abducted from a mall. Suspicions point to the two girls. It turns out that one of them gave birth while in the states custody to a child who was put up for adoption. The girl was very resentful that her daughter was taken from her. By the end it turns out that one of the girls was unexpectedly manipulating the other all the time. The reader gets a lot of background on the mother of the manipulator, the original dead childs mother, a female police detective, a ambitious female newspaper reporter, and a guilt ridden female lawyer who had originally represented one of the girls. A good quick read. By the way, the second child who was abducted was rescued.
Lippman can do better
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I loved "What the Dead Know," my first Laura Lippman novel, so I eagerly anticipated reading her again. This one did not pack the wallop of the other book. It was a good read, but fell apart with the predictable resolution. I will give this author another chance, however.
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