Every Secret Thing: A Novel
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ISBN: 0060506679 / Publisher: William Morrow, September 2003
Seven years after inadvertently causing a death while walking home from a party, estranged friends Alice and Ronnie are forced to confront the truth about what happened when another child goes missing under similar circumstances.
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“This is a standout.”—Orlando Sentinel “One of those books that publishers like to say ‘transcends the genre,’ but in this case it’s true.”—Chicago Sun-TimesEvery Secret Thing is a riveting story of love and murder, guilt and innocence, adult sins and childhood darkness that the New York Times Book Review hailed as, “powerful…disturbing.” Stepping away from her acclaimed, award-winning mystery series featuring Baltimore private investigator Tess Monaghan, author Laura Lippman has delivered a novel of psychological suspense that will shock and mesmerize readers, gripping them to the page while breaking their hearts. The tale of a terrible event that devastates three families, after two young girls discover by of an unsupervised baby on an empty street, Every Secret Thing is a bravura demonstration of the extraordinary storytelling skill that has won Laura Lippman every major literary prize bestowed upon mystery writers, including the Edgar®, the Anthony, the Shamus, and the Agatha Awards.
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