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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Edgar-winner Lippman, author of the Tess Monaghan mystery
series (No Good Deeds, etc.), shows she's as good as Peter Abrahams
and other A-list thriller writers with this outstanding stand-alone.
A driver who flees a car accident on a Maryland highway breathes new
life into a 30-year-old mystery—the disappearance of the young Bethany
sisters at a shopping mall—after she later tells the police she's one
of the missing girls. As soon as the mystery woman drops that bombshell,
she clams up, placing the new lead detective, Kevin Infante, in a bind,
as he struggles to gain her trust while exploring the odd holes in
her story. Deftly moving between past and present, Lippman presents
the last day both sisters, Sunny and Heather, were seen alive from
a variety of perspectives. Subtle clues point to the surprising but
plausible solution of the crime and the identity of the mystery woman.
Lippman, who has also won Shamus, Agatha, Anthony and Nero Wolfe awards,
should gain many new fans with this superb effort.
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