Synopses & Reviews
“Laura Lippman is among the select group of novelists who have invigorated the crime fiction arena with smart, innovative, and exciting work.”
—George Pelecanos
“Lippmans taut, mesmerizing, and exceptionally smart drama of predator and prey is at once unusually sensitive and utterly compelling.
—Booklist
Laura Lippman, New York Times bestselling author of What the Dead Know, Life Sentences, and the acclaimed Tess Monaghan p.i. series, delivers a stunning stand-alone novel that explores the lasting effects on lives touched by crime. With Id Know You Anywhere, Lippman—master of mystery and psychological suspense, winner of every major literary prize given for crime fiction, including the Edgar®, Agatha, and Nero Wolfe Awards—tells a gripping and richly textured tale of a young woman whose life dangerously entwines once again with a man on Death Row who had kidnapped her when she was a teenager. This is superior mystery writing in the vein of Kate Atkinson.
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Laura Lippman is one of those uncommonly talented authors whose work continues to get better in every book she writes. Id Know You Anywhere is a riveting psychological suspense novel. Globe and Mail (Toronto)
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This is a story that grips you not with suspense but with its acute psychological autopsy of a survivor. Lippmans knack for elucidating the horrors humans can inflict on one another through violence and manipulation while telling a compelling story is disarming and fascinating.- USA Today
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“Shes one of the best novelists around, period.” Washington Post
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The popular mystery-series authors latest stand-alone: a terrifying story about a death-row inmate obsessed with the only victim he left alive. O magazine
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“Ex-journalist Lippman never forgets as she moves from past to present and from perspective to perspective that nothing is more importantor more elusivethan the truth.” Kirkus
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Id Know You Anywhere is a crime story, but its not a whodunit. Rather, its an exquisitely sensitive story about the psychological impact of crime on its victims. Its a story about shame, about anger, about survivors guilt. Fort Worth Star-Telegram
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“Id Know You Anywhere” continues Laura Lippmans extraordinary run of stand-alone novels (alternating with her lighter books about private eye Tess Monaghan). From its unsettling opening to its breathtaking conclusion, “Anywhere” exemplifies Lippmans strengths: compassion, intense prose and deep empathy for the snares of ambiguous emotions. Seattle Times
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“With the summer reading season coming to a close, dont let ID KNOW YOU ANYWHERE be the one that got away.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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“Id Know You Anywhere” ranks with her very best.” Associated Press
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“Lippmans dedicated fans will find themselves well rewarded with ID KNOW YOU ANYWHERE, an exceptional novel in every way, which is sure to gain her many new followers.” San Diego Union-Tribune
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“Lippman deftly keeps the balls aloft with a strong structure -- a straight-ahead chronology interrupted by surgical flashbacks -- and evocative writing.” Cleveland Plain Dealer
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“There are so many things about this novel that are expertly pulled off. It has a devious premise. DI Helen Grace is fiendishly awesome. It's scary as all hell….EENY MEENY is a dark, edgy thriller.”—Will Lavender,
New York Times bestselling author of
Obedience “[A] taut, fast-paced debut.”—The Sun (UK)
“A tapestry that chills to the bone.”—Daily Mail (UK)
“A fast-paced roller-coaster ride.”—Life Through Books
“A thrilling and enjoyable read…a shocking twist at the end.”—The Crime Scene
“[A] rip-roaring affair…pulls no punches with its opening lines and doesnt let go until the very last.”—Boy, Lets Talk About Books
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“Dark, twisted, thought-provoking, and I couldnt turn the pages fast enough. Take a ride on this roller coaster from hell—white knuckles guaranteed.”—Tami Hoag, #1
New York Times bestselling author of
Cold Cold Heart
"No doubt about it! Eeny Meeny debuts one of the best new series detectives, Helen Grace. Determined, tough, and damaged, she must unravel a terrifying riddle of a killer kidnapping victims in pairs to send a particularly personal message. Mesmerizing!”—Lisa Gardner, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Crash and Burn
"What a great premise! . . . Eeny Meeny is a fresh and brilliant departure from the stock serial killer tale. And Detective Inspector Helen Grace is one of the greatest heroes to come along in years.”—Jeffery Deaver, New York Times bestselling author of The Skin Collector and Solitude Creek
“There are so many things about this novel that are expertly pulled off. It has a devious premise. DI Helen Grace is fiendishly awesome. It's scary as all hell….Eeny Meeny is a dark, edgy thriller.”—Will Lavender, New York Times bestselling author of Obedience
“[A] taut, fast-paced debut.”—The Sun (UK)
“A tapestry that chills to the bone.”—Daily Mail (UK)
“A fast-paced roller-coaster ride.”—Life Through Books
“A thrilling and enjoyable read…a shocking twist at the end.”—The Crime Scene
“[A] rip-roaring affair…pulls no punches with its opening lines and doesnt let go until the very last.”—Boy, Lets Talk About Books
Synopsis
There was your photo, in a magazine. Of course, you are older now. Still, I'd know you anywhere.
Suburban wife and mother Eliza Benedict's peaceful world falls off its axis when a letter arrives from Walter Bowman. In the summer of 1985, when Eliza was fifteen, she was kidnapped by this man and held hostage for almost six weeks. Now he's on death row in Virginia for the rape and murder of his final victim, and Eliza wants nothing to do with him. Walter, however, is unpredictable when ignored—as Eliza knows only too well—and to shelter her children from the nightmare of her past, she'll see him one last time.
But Walter is after something more than forgiveness: He wants Eliza to save his life . . . and he wants her to remember the truth about that long-ago summer and release the terrible secret she's keeping buried inside.
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The international bestseller that grabs the reader by the throat" (Crime Time). First in the new series featuring Detective Inspector Helen Grace.
Two people are abducted, imprisoned, and left with a gun. As hunger and thirst set in, only one walks away alive.
Its a game more twisted than any Detective Inspector Helen Grace has ever seen. If she hadnt spoken with the shattered survivors herself, she almost wouldnt believe them.
Helen is familiar with the dark sides of human nature, including her own, but this casewith its seemingly random victimshas her baffled. But as more people go missing, nothing will be more terrifying than when it all starts making sense....
About the Author
Laura Lippman grew up in Baltimore and returned to her hometown in 1989 to work as a journalist. After writing seven books while still a full-time reporter, she left the Baltimore Sun to focus on fiction. She is the author of eleven Tess Monaghan books, including Baltimore Blues, Another Thing to Fall, and The Girl in the Green Raincoat; five stand-alone novels, including Every Secret Thing, To the Power of Three, What the Dead Know, and Life Sentences; and one short story collection, Hardly Knew Her. She is also the editor of another story collection, Baltimore Noir. Lippman has won numerous awards for her work, including the Edgar, Quill, Anthony, Nero Wolfe, Agatha, Gumshoe, Barry, and Macavity.