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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman came to a not unexpected but interesting end. It is quite a wrenching tale of what happens to a family when their two daughters disappear from a shopping mall, one of them supposedly resurfacing thirty years later. Did I say wrenching? Maybe 'insidious' is a better word. But a very good book. I don't think I've read any of Lippman's books before, but I might try another. (  ) jbleil | Dec 23, 2009 |  Very dark; not Tess Monihan but set in Baltimore. Interesting but Dark. I almost didn't make it further than the first five or so chapters because it was depressing, but I'm glad that I continued. Once I accepted the major premise I became involved in discovering what happened to the Bethany sisters. Lippman's good at pacing the information the reader needs to stay involved. ( ) dianaleez | Dec 5, 2009 | Thirty years ago two sisters disappeared from a shopping mall. Their bodies were never found and those familiar with the case have always been tortured by the questions. Now a disoriented woman involved in a rush-hour traffic accident claims to be one of the sisters. Could this be possible? ( ) RABooktalker | Nov 11, 2009 | I'm not actually sure if this was a good book or not, which sound silly. I think it could have benefited from a little tightening.However, the plot is certainly compelling, and chances are you won't guess the ending till you get there. A page-turner. (  ) alissamarie | Oct 25, 2009 | I'm not actually sure if this was a good book or not, which sound silly. I think it could have benefited from a little tightening.However, the plot is certainly compelling, and chances are you won't guess the ending till you get there. A page-turner. ( ) alissamarie | Oct 25, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0061128856, Hardcover)Thirty years ago two sisters disappeared from a shopping mall. Their bodies were never found and those familiar with the case have always been tortured by these questions: How do you kidnap two girls? Who—or what—could have lured the two sisters away from a busy mall on a Saturday afternoon without leaving behind a single clue or witness? Now a clearly disoriented woman involved in a rush-hour hit-and-run claims to be the younger of the long-gone Bethany sisters. But her involuntary admission and subsequent attempt to stonewall investigators only deepens the mystery. Where has she been? Why has she waited so long to come forward? Could her abductor truly be a beloved Baltimore cop? There isn't a shred of evidence to support her story, and every lead she gives the police seems to be another dead end—a dying, incoherent man, a razed house, a missing grave, and a family that disintegrated long ago, torn apart not only by the crime but by the fissures the tragedy revealed in what appeared to be the perfect household. In a story that moves back and forth across the decades, there is only one person who dares to be skeptical of a woman who wants to claim the identity of one Bethany sister without revealing the fate of the other. Will he be able to discover the truth? (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:12 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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