New Laura Lippman

On a searing August day, Melisandre Harris Dawes committed the unthinkable: she left her two-month-old daughter locked in a car while she sat nearby on the shores of the Patapsco River. Melisandre was found not guilty by reason of criminal insanity. Freed, she left the country, her husband and her two surviving children, determined to start over. But now Melisandre has returned Baltimore to meet with her estranged teenage daughters and wants to film the reunion for a documentary. (Publisher Summary)

Hush Hush received a starred review from Booklist Reviews: "with an intriguing cast of characters, stinging dialogue, hilarious moments, and a superbly convoluted and suspenseful plot, Lippman has created an incisive and provocative tale about parents good and evil."

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Cold Case Full of Secrets and Lies

Twenty-six years after a convicted felon's mistress went missing, Roberto “Sandy” Sanchez, a retired Baltimore detective working cold cases for some extra cash, is investigating her murder in Laura Lippman's newest title After I'm Gone. What he discovers is a tangled web of bitterness, jealousy, and greed stretching over three decades that connects five intriguing women. And at the center is the missing man Felix Brewer.

Somewhere between the secrets and lies connecting past and present, Sandy will find the truth. And when he does, no one will ever be the same.

"In this stand-alone (adroitly linked to the Tess Monaghan series), Lippman focuses on the inner lives of the women left behind. Despite the murder at its center, this is less a suspenseful whodunit than a masterly novel of character, with secrets skillfully and gradually revealed. Revel in the pace and pleasures of this book (including section headings that riff on the song "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me") that should add to Lippman's literary luster." (Library Journal Reviews)

Big Titles This Month

This month, three popular authors will release long awaited books and your Community Library will have them.

• M.L. Stedman's debut novel The Light Between Oceans has received lots of pre publication buzz as "The Must Read Book of 2012".  It tells the story of a childless couple living on a secluded island in early 1900s Australia.  When an infant washes up on shore, a rift in their marriage develops only the be further complicated by the search for the baby's mother.  Will the book live up to the hype?

• And When She Was Good by bestselling author and multiple prize winner Laura Lippman is a gripping crime novel involving a suburban madam, a convicted killer whose sentence is about to be overturned, and the child they will both do anything to keep.

• Fans of the Dark Hunter series rejoice!  Sherrilynn Kenyon is back with Time Untime.  Get ready to meet a new Dark Hunter in this installment.

Did you know that you do not have to wait until we physically receive a book to place a hold?  You can request a title as soon as we place out order with the publisher!