The Most Dangerous Thing: The Most Dangerous Thing
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9780062097859 (0062097857)
Publish date: August 23rd 2011
Publisher: HarperAudio
Minutes: 12
Edition language: English
This is going to make me sound like a horrible person, but I might as well put it up front: I didn't enjoy this as much as some other Lippman books I've read recently, because the people aren't nearly so awful. In her usual way she's exploring how events in the past are never hidden, how they rise u...
The streak of excellent novels had to end sometime. End it did with the reading of Laura Lippman’s The Most Dangerous Thing. Even though she has won numerous awards for her work, The Most Dangerous Thing is not her most impressive piece of fiction. In fact, it falls flat as it explores the consequen...
I expected The Most Dangerous Thing to be a gripping tale that kept you reading because you just couldn’t bear to wonder what happens next… Instead it’s a story with no clear villain, no clear victim, and no clear path. It meanders between present-day and the past, and jumps from one character’s poi...
I enjoy Lippman's novels because she's a solid writer, but especially because I like reading about the places I remember from living in Baltimore. In this case, she even mentions the street I lived on briefly in Dickeyville, which is a geeky thing to get excited about, I know.Despite multiple viewpo...
Well, sort of a mystery -- maybe crime fiction? In any case, another tightly woven, suspenseful novel with lots of great characters from Lippman, including a brief appearance from Tess Monaghan, late in the book. Maybe too many characters? But really, she drew each of them very well. I am really enj...
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