Laura Lippman

La detective Tess Monaghan es contratada por Mark Rubin, un rico e influyente judío ortodoxo, para que encuentre a su mujer y a sus hijos, que han desaparecido. El primer problema es que la desaparición parece voluntaria, por lo que la policía no se hace cargo. Y el segundo es que, a medida que la investigación avanza, Tess comienza a toparse con los prejuicios y secretos de la hermética comunidad judía, y con una turbia historia de traiciones, venganzas y dinero negro... Una verdadera tela de araña, en la que cualquier paso en falso puede resultar fatal...

Hay preguntas que sólo los muertos podrían responder...En 1975, dos hermanas, de once y quince años, des- aparecieron en un centro comercial. Nunca fueron encontradas, y cientos de preguntas quedaron sin respuesta: ¿como pudieron secuestrar a dos niñas?, ¿quien o que consiguio atraerlas fuera del centro sin dejar rastro? Treinta años despues, una extraña mujer que se ha visto envuelta en un accidente de tra co asegura ser una de las niñas. Pero su confesion y las posteriores evasivas con que responde a los investigadores solo profundizan el misterio. ¿Donde ha estado todos estos años?

A woman causes an accident on the Baltimore Beltway, flees the scene and is later picked up wandering on the shoulder of the Interstate. The accident occurs just a mile from the former home of the Bethany family, Dave and Miriam and their daughters Sunny and Heather. Thirty years before, twelve-year-old Heather persuaded her older sister Sunny to let her tag along on a visit to the mall. Neither of the girls has been seen since. Now, the woman on the Beltway claims to be Heather Bethany. Today she has a different name; a different identity. What has prompted this woman to announce her true - if it is true - identity at this moment? Laura Lippman deftly unpeels the layers of Heather''s past: revealing her parents, sister, friends, teachers, and the detective who handled the case, until the truth about what happened to Heather and Sunny on that long ago afternoon is finally uncovered.

Laura Lippman delivers another absorbing thriller that sucks you in with vivid characters and great plotting. Felix Brewer had it all; a beautiful wife, three wonderful daughters and money, via a successful numbers racket. But when it finally came time to face the music, in 1976, Felix ran, leaving everything and everyone behind including a host of unanswered questions, a missing fortune and another woman.

When Felix Brewer meets nineteen-year-old Bernadette 'Bambi' Gottschalk at a dance in 1959, he charms her with wild promises. But on the Fourth of July, 1976, Bambi's world implodes when Felix, newly convicted and facing prison, mysteriously vanishes. Though Bambi has no idea where her husband - or his money - might be, she suspects one woman does: his devoted young mistress, Julie. When Julie herself disappears ten years to the day that Felix went on the lam, everyone assumes she's left to join her -old lover - until her remains are found in a secluded wooded park. Now, twenty-six years after Julie went missing, Roberto 'Sandy' Sanchez, a retired Baltimore detective working cold cases for some extra cash, is investigating her murder. What he discovers is a tangled web of bitterness, jealously, resentment and greed stretching over the three decades and three generations that connect these five very different women. And at the center of every woman's story is the man who, though long gone, has never been forgotten: the enigmatic Felix Brewer.

No one is quite who he or she seems. Hush Hush is the story of Melisandre - rich, beautiful, possibly insane - who has to live with the knowledge of a devastating event in her past. She has not seen her two daughters, now aged fifteen and seventeen, in the ten years since the notorious family tragedy. And her husband has moved on, married now to his personal trainer, and seemingly happy. As Melisandre returns to Baltimore from South Africa, however, there are suddenly more mysterious deaths. And quite what did happen all that time ago has never been clear - what role had each of the members of this unhappy family played? And is anyone telling the truth? Tess Monaghan, now the mother of a young girl herself, makes a return as the investigator who gets snared in the case. A hugely powerful and emotive novel about parents and children - about destructive parents who think they love their children and good parents whose children are the centre of their lives - it is also a superbly plotted mystery novel, one which will keep you hooked until the very final page.

La detective Tess Monoghan abre al fin su propia agencia de investigación, y lo hace en Butchers Hill. Quizás no sea la mejor zona de Baltimore, pero en algún sitio hay que empezar. Un hombre anciano que acaba de salir de la carcel contratara sus servicios. Acaba de cumplir condena por el asesinato de un ado-lescente, al que mato por destrozar su coche. Ha tenido tiempo de reflexionar en la sombra, y lo que ahora desea es indemnizar a los chicos que presenciaron el crimen, de manera que Tess habra de localizarlos. Y quizas sea tarde; los chicos aparecen muertos.Tess se vera envuelta en un rastro de dinero y mentiras, que conducen a calles desconocidas, a los rincones menos agradables de Butchers Hill.Laura Lippman parte de un caso real, nos brinda una serie de reflexiones sobre los bajos fondos, la adopcion y los centros de acogida. Sus novelas han sido ganadoras de los premios Edgar, Agatha, Shamus, Anthony y Nero.

A woman causes an accident on the Baltimore Beltway, flees the scene and is later picked up wandering on the shoulder of the Interstate. The accident occurs just a mile from the former home of the Bethany family, Dave and Miriam and their daughters Sunny and Heather. Thirty years before, twelve-year-old Heather persuaded her older sister Sunny to let her tag along on a visit to the mall. Neither of the girls has been seen since. Now, the woman on the Beltway claims to be Heather Bethany. Today she has a different name; a different identity. What has prompted this woman to announce her true - if it is true - identity at this moment? Laura Lippman deftly unpeels the layers of Heather's past: revealing her parents, sister, friends, teachers, and the detective who handled the case, until the truth about what happened to Heather and Sunny on that long ago afternoon is finally uncovered.

Laura LippmanWhen private eye Tess Monaghan finds herself literally on a collision course with the makers of a TV series being shot in her native Baltimore, it's not only her introduction to the surreal world of television drama, but also the beginning of a case that only a crazed scriptwriter could have dreamed up for her. Selene Waites, the glamorous but brittle young star of the show, has been the victim of a twisted stalker, and executive producer thinks Tess would be just the person to bodyguard her during filming. At first, Selene seems like a spoiled kook out of central casting and the babysitting job a PR sham, but as Tess gets sucked deeper into the show's labyrinthine web of deceptions and betrayals, she soon finds she's unwittingly become the main feature in a storyline featuring murder, kidnapping and sickening obsession...

Luisa ''Lu'' Brant is the newly elected - and first female - state''s attorney of Howard County, Maryland, a job in which her revered father famously served. Fiercely intelligent and ambitious, she sees an opportunity to make her name by trying a mentally disturbed drifter accused of beating a woman to death in her home. It''s not the kind of case that makes headlines, but peaceful Howard County doesn''t see many homicides.As Lu prepares for the trial, the case dredges up painful memories, reminding her small but tight-knit family of the night when her brother, AJ, saved his best friend at the cost of another man''s life. Only eighteen, AJ was cleared by a grand jury. Now, Lu wonders if the events of 1980 happened as she remembers them. What details might have been withheld from her when she was a child?The more she learns about the case, the more questions arise. What does it mean to be a man or woman of one''s times? Why do we ask our heroes of the past to conform to the present''s standards? Is that fair? Is it right? Propelled into the past, she discovers that the legal system, the bedrock of her entire life, does not have all the answers. Lu realises that even if she could learn the whole truth, she probably wouldn''t want to.

Cleo Sherwood disappeared eight months ago. Aside from her parents and the two sons she left behind, no one seems to have noticed. It isn't hard to understand why: it's 1964 and neither the police, the public nor the papers care much when Negro women go missing.Maddie Schwartz - recently separated from her husband, working her first job as an assistant at the Baltimore Sun - wants one thing: a byline. When she hears about an unidentified body that's been pulled out of the fountain in Druid Hill Park, Maddie thinks she is about to uncover a story that will finally get her name in print. What she cant imagine is how much trouble she will cause by chasing a story that no-one wants her to tell.

When she hears about an unidentified body thats been pulled out of the fountain in Druid Hill Park, Maddie thinks she is about to uncover a story that will finally get her name in print.

Deux fillettes rentrent chez elles par une chaude après-midi de juillet à Baltimore. Dans une rue quelles nauraient pas dû emprunter, elles trouvent un bébé abandonné dans un landau. La gentille Alic

Laura Lippman has long been fascinated by the dangerous vulnerability of teenage girls. In The Babysitters Codethe inspiration for her critically acclaimed novel, To the Power of Threean adolescent girl decides to take a gun to school. In Hardly Knew Her, Lippmans homage to Carson McCullers TheMember of the Wedding, a tomboy learns that growing up means learning how to lie and deceive. And in Ice*a prequel to The Most Dangerous Thinga young girl is literally haunted by a child who drowned in a mysterious accident. Available singly or as a collection.

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Men in Laura Lippmans haunting and suspenseful stories can be terrified witnesses, unwitting victims, or bemused perpetrators. In Pony Girl and Black-Eyed Susan, young African-American men find themselves bystanders to horrific crimes central to local celebrations. In What He Needed, a happily married magazine editor recounts the end of her marriage to a depressed, possibly dangerous husband. A Good Fuck Spoiled reveals a man terrified by a mistress he never meant to have. And in Easy as A-B-C, a Baltimore contractor offers a new spin on Edgar Allan Poes The Tell-Tale Heart when he falls for a client who hires him to build a wine cellar in her basement. Available singly or as a collection.

Heloise is a suburban madam who flies under the radar in her affluent Maryland community by claiming shes a lobbyist. Featured in Laura Lippmans novel And When She Was Good, Heloise first appeared in two short stories, One True Love and Scratch a Woman. In a third story, Form 95, a police detective spins a web that not even the vigilant Heloise suspects. Available singly or as a collection.