by Laura Lippman (Author)
A middle-aged woman causes an accident on the Baltimore Beltway, flees the scene and is later picked up wandering on the shoulder of the Interstate. The accident occurs just a mile from the former home of the Bethany family, Dave and Miriam and their daughters Sunny and Heather. Thirty years before, twelve-year-old Heather persuaded her older sister Sunny to let her tag along on a visit to the mall. Neither of the girls has been seen since. Now, the woman on the Beltway claims to be Heather Bethany. Today she has a different name; a different identity. What has prompted this woman to announce her true - if it is true - identity at this moment? With her customary acute intelligence and empathy, Laura Lippman deftly unpeels the layers of Heather's past: revealing her parents, sister, friends, teachers, and the detective who handled the case, until the truth about what happened to Heather and Sunny on that long ago afternoon is finally uncovered.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Publisher: Orion
Published: 21 Jun 2007
ISBN 10: 073948124X
ISBN 13: 9780752888507
Book Overview: Film rights to Lippman's first standalone thriller EVERY SECRET THING have been optioned by Frances McDormand Lippman beat off strong competition to win the 2004 Anthony Award for EVERY SECRET THING NO GOOD DEEDS has been shortlisted for the 2006 Anthony Award and BY A SPIDER'S THREAD was shortlisted for the 2005 Edgar Award Brilliant quotes received for Lippman: 'Wonderfully paced, really well-crafted and her characters are superbly drawn - very believable. It's not often that a crime novel gets the balance right between plot and character but here it worked perfectly' Kate Atkinson 'Laura Lippman understands perfectly the power of adolescent passions and how easily they spiral out of control. Read THE POWER OF THREE and despair of a world where guns are easier to come by than drugs' Val McDermid