Hush Hush: A Tess Monaghan Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.86 (540 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00K52I7HQ |
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| Number of Pages | : | 491 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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But there are crimes that defy all attempts at understanding, where a search for motive seems pointless.Melisandre Harris Dawes committed such a crime. Doing so will mean confronting her deepest beliefs about what separates good parents from bad, madness from sanity, and what lengths even the most rational person will go to, to protect what they cherish most.. Still, Melisandre’s lawyer is family. Is she a master manipulator or someone who was driven to temporary madness? Cold and calculating, or a mother concerned for her daughters’ well being? Someone is leaving Melisandre enigmatic, threatening notes. New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman plunges Baltimore private investigator Tess Monaghan into a twisted and disturbing case.Tess Monaghan has encountered almost every possible criminal motive throughout her career: greed, revenge, jealousy, rage. Twelve years later, she’s back in Ba
"SKIP this 12th book." according to Amazon Customer. This was a REAL disappointment. I have read all of Laura Lippman's books and this one really was a surprise. It's really badly written. The plot is so convoluted that after a while you simply don't give a hoot what happens. She throws in a second story line that really has nothing to do with the first one and is just filler. The characters are wooden and not deep. About half way through I actively disliked them. She even treated the regular characters poorly. Tess in this book has become a mealy mouthed uninteresting, scared mommy. OK, so she's a mom. It shouldn't have sucked her brains out of her head.This is NOT he. Just okay. I have really loved Laura Lippman's past books, especially the Tess Monaghan series. But this book and the last one have been disappointing. The "crime mystery" just didn't catch my fancy for some reason. I liked the books better when Tess was single because the books were more about her. This one was more about the characters in the mystery and I didn't really like any of them. And the parts about Tess herself were not parts I could related to.. Read all of her books (no, I'm not related)! ddmcinzh Love all of Laura Lippman's books. The writing is thoughtful and truly interesting. Not terrifying but also not a light-hearted read. I think I've read them all.
Now a perennial New York Times bestselling author, she lives in Baltimore and New Orleans with her family.. Laura has been nominated for more than 50 awards for crime fiction and won almost 20, including the Edgar. Her books have been translated into over twenty languages. Since Laura Lippman’
“one of Lippman’s finest novels.” (Chicago Tribune)