by Laura Lippman
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...