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“Well,” the bookstore manager said, “it’s Valentine’s Day.”

Life Sentences by Laura Lippmann

January 13, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

In the intro to one of the Tess Monaghan books Laura Lippmann talks about 2009 bringing to the world this book, which was getting some of her best journalism reviews, which very well might be true, but boy do readers seem to really hate this one. I think it’s ok, and not my favorite of her books, and not remotely my favorite of her non-Tess books either. In this book a best-selling memoirist, whose first book told the story of when her white father went […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: laura lippmann, Life Sentences

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:22 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: laura lippmann, Life Sentences ·
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I saw you once.

Lady in the Lake by Laura Lippmann

August 10, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is the newest Laura Lippmann novel, and only the second novel of hers that I’ve read outside of the Tess Monaghan series, even though she puts a little Easter Egg in this one for fans. It takes places in the mid-1960s and involves the murder of a young Jewish girl from the Northwest corner of Baltimore/the suburb Pikesville and the murder of a Black woman in the city center (Druid Hill). These two murders are linked narratively, if not so much criminally. The novel […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: Lady in the Lake, laura lippmann

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:451 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: Lady in the Lake, laura lippmann ·
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