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What the Dead Know
by: Laura Lippman

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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780061128868
ISBN: 0061128864
Label: Harper
Manufacturer: Harper
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: March 01, 2008
Publisher: Harper
Release Date: February 26, 2008
Sales Rank: 17869
Studio: Harper

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Thirty years ago, the two Bethany sisters, ages 11 and 15, disappeared from a Baltimore shopping mall. They never returned, their bodies were never found, and only painful questions remain. How do you kidnap two girls from a busy mall on a Saturday afternoon without leaving behind a single clue or witness? Now, decades later, in the aftermath of a rush-hour hit-and-run accident, a clearly disoriented woman is claiming to be Heather, the younger Bethany sister. Not a shred of evidence supports her story, and every lead she reluctantly offers takes the police to another dead end—a dying, incoherent man; a razed house; a missing grave. But there is something she knows about that terrible day . . . and about a family that disintegrated long ago, torn apart by an unthinkable tragedy and the fissures it revealed in a seemingly perfect household.

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- do yourself a favor - read the book
WHAT A STORY!!! The author keeps the then and now thing going right to the end - and it works. This is my first Lippman - but it will not be my last. I kinda had guessed some of the end - but this is one of the best books I have listened to in a long long time. Well written and well read. I commute so I listen to a lot of books and this was a good one.

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- Suffers from Its Critical Praise
I picked up this novel at the suggestions of "The Strand" magazine that named it the best novel of 2008. Unfortunately, with praise such as this even good stories come off feeling overrated. This novel was well plotted up until the end where I found the resolution rather disappointing. Still the journey is worth it. The characters are all well rounded, real and interesting. Certainly worth the time and definately enjoyable, but not the best thing I've read this year.

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- My first Laura Lippman Novel but definitely not my last
What a wonderful book. I listened to the audio book and it was captivating. Her prose style is wonderfully intelligent and well articulated. The plot was ingenious with totally unpredictable twists and turns. 5 star rating is low in my estimation for this wonderful work.

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- an original but slow mystery
I loved the start of this novel. A woman is involved in a hit and run accident, and when confronted by the police, she connects herself to a 20 year old disappearance of two young girls. It was clear at the start that this was not going to follow any typical mystery formula. The novel is very well written, and bounces back and forth from past to present. I did get a bit impatient for a bit more to happen. I liked the characters, but the movement was all in time, and so there was no real character development. I liked the ending as well as so much about the book, but I spent too much time wishing it move along a bit more. This is a true original, and I expect a good read for many out there.

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