Every Secret Thing
by:
Laura Lippman (author)
From critically acclaimed, multiple-award winner Laura Lippman comes a riveting story of love and murder, guilt and innocence Two little girls banished from a neighborhood birthday party find an abandoned stroller with an infant inside on an unfamiliar Baltimore street. What happens next is...
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From critically acclaimed, multiple-award winner Laura Lippman comes a riveting story of love and murder, guilt and innocence Two little girls banished from a neighborhood birthday party find an abandoned stroller with an infant inside on an unfamiliar Baltimore street. What happens next is shocking and terrible, causing the irreparable devastation of three separate families. 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, and all the adults in Alice and Ronnie’s lives. And now another child has disappeared, under freakishly similar circumstances.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780062074898 (006207489X)
ASIN: 006207489X
Publish date: August 16th 2011
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages no: 448
Edition language: English
And I give up. Don't care enough to continue reading. I have read FOUR other books while trying to complete this one. Ended up reading the spoiler reviews on here and sad to say that I just didn't really care.The only reason I picked up this book was because I heard they were turning it into a movie...
Two eleven-year old girls are sent home in shame from a birthday party. They see a baby carriage sitting outside of a house, peer inside and see a baby, and they decide they absolutely must take care of it. But something goes wrong, and the baby dies, and the two girls are sent to separate juvenil...
Intense, filled with twists of characters that leaves you second guessing yourself to the end.
I quite enjoy Lippman's mysteries - the entire community perspective, the rotating points of view, the lack of one entirely sympathetic viewpoint. I came to her books on the heels of Eileen Dreyer's books, which I adore madly but can only read a couple in a row. They're kind of like candy. Lippman's...