About this title: From the "New York Times"-bestselling creator of the Tess Monaghan series comes a pulse-pounding, stand-alone mystery in which a disoriented woman claims to be one of two sisters abducted from a mall 30 years ago.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: William Morrow
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780061128851ISBN:0061128856
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Dust Jacket has some edgewear present. A former library book with the usual identifiers in a protective glossy dust jacket covering. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Very Good. read more
"To say that the characters in this book are flat is to give them too much credit, there are so many stereotypes here. The womanizing cop, the pudgy divorcee who takes solace in books, the ball busting lawyer who MUST be sexually ambiguous because she's a woman with power--you've seen them before and you'll certainly see them again. And to top that off, the main character (whose true identity I guessed early on, but was just enough uncertain of to have a little "ahh" moment at the reveal) really just was not likeable. There was no sympathy there, despite what she had gone through. Because we spent the whole book listening to her lying, and whining, I just wanted her to shut up already. All that said though, this wasn't a completely wasted read. It had some bright moments of really good writing, and the mystery was just tangled enough that, if you like that sort of story, you'll be compelled to follow. The author withheld some vital information that she should have shared at the beginning; if she had I don't think the reveal would have felt quite so cheap or forced, but Lippman isn't a bad writer, I think she just needs a little more work on becoming a storyteller."
"This book tracks originally from the real, disturbing disappearance of the Lyons sisters from the Wheaton Mall. I finished it with my book club at the same time an article appeared in The Washington Post about how horrifying it was for families of victims to relive incidents through the penchant for television (Dateline or CSI, e.g.) or novels (John Grisham, e.g.) to do "ripped from the headlines" dramas. And therein lies my conundrum with this book, which was wonderfully written from a variety of points of view. We as social humans have a need to solve the unsolvable, or our imagination supplies the answers. As mesmerizing as it was to read someone's attempt to track the emotions and events of losing two young girls, my imagination can never supply the terror and inability to cope that families must go through. So should we not peer? Should we not imagine? I don't think so, but perhaps we should let a good deal of time pass, as this author did, before we conjure up an alternative vision of what likely will be never known."
"I mean, when people say gripping, I know what they're getting at, and this manages to be gripping without resorting to many of the crime novel cliches. But the ending is so problematic to me. I don't see why logic wins over madness. Sometimes it just doesn't. That is sad, but more true than not. That's my lecture. Thanks for reading, I'll be here all week."
"Mysteries are one of my favorite genres. I will now add Laura Lippman to my list of favorite mystery writers. Her outstanding plot and character development captured me from the beginning of this book. Thirty years ago 2 sisters disappeared from a mall and their bodies have never been found. We watch the disintegration of their seemingly perfect family and are drawn in by the confused, or is it cunning, young woman who is involved in a hit-and-run accident and claims to be one of the famous lost Bethany sisters."
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