What the Dead Know: A Novel
Thirty years ago two sisters disappeared from a shopping mall. Their bodies were never found and those familiar with the case have always been tortured by these questions: How do you kidnap two girls? Who—or what—could have lured the two sisters away from a busy mall on a Saturday afternoon without leaving behind a single clue or witness?
Now a clearly disoriented woman involved in a rush-hour hit-and-run claims to be the younger of the long-gone Bethany sisters. But her involuntary admission and subsequent attempt to stonewall investigators only deepens the mystery. Where has she been? Why has she waited so long to come forward? Could her abductor truly be a beloved Baltimore cop? There isn't a shred of evidence to support her story, and every lead she gives the police seems to be another dead end—a dying, incoherent man, a razed house, a missing grave, and a family that disintegrated long ago, torn apart not only by the crime but by the fissures the tragedy revealed in what appeared to be the perfect household.
In a story that moves back and forth across the decades, there is only one person who dares to be skeptical of a woman who wants to claim the identity of one Bethany sister without revealing the fate of the other. Will he be able to discover the truth?
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101 Reviews
| From: Amazon Posted: Apr 24, 2008 Type: User Review |
A thirty-year search for the truth
Two sisters, Sunny and Heather Bethany, disappear from a Baltimore mall in 1975. They are never found. Their parents' marriage does not survive the tragedy, and after a few anguished years, they divorce. Thirty years later, a car skids on an...
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 4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Apr 18, 2008 Type: User Review |
Not about the Lyon case
This is a good story. Several of the characters are cliches, but as mystery genre writing goes this is better than average. The use of the "a police" idiom is incredibly annoying, and the prose is occasionally tone deaf. But it is a very...
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 3.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Apr 13, 2008 Type: User Review |
I want to know what the dead know...
OK, first, a caveat - though I'm a Philly girl, my husband's family is from Bawlmuhr, so I've heard a lot about this author and have more than a passing knowledge of the local flavor. I think that probably added to my enjoyment of the book....
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4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Apr 08, 2008 Type: User Review |
What a great mystery and surprise ending
I was really interested in this book from the beginning because of it's premise of two girls going missing in childhood and then the intriguing possibility that one returns. It lived up to the promise of a very interesting mystery. I couldn't...
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 5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Mar 25, 2008 Type: User Review |
Great mystery, so-so style
I have mixed feelings about this book. The book is about two sisters who disappear. Several years later, a woman appears who claims to be one of the missing sisters. The suspense and mystery, I thought, was stellar. I loved the plot and the...
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4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Mar 23, 2008 Type: User Review |
Penelope should get her own book
*POSSIBLE SPOILERS*
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4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Mar 23, 2008 Type: User Review |
a dark, engrossing tale
This was one of the most complex suspense novels I've ever read. The story shifts in time and point of view, each section more interesting than the last. It's a morally ambiguous tale that makes the reader both feel and think. How do we keep...
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Mar 20, 2008 Type: User Review |
So-So
This was definitely not my favorite Laura Lippman book. I felt it dragged in a number of places and the ending was really rather expected, rather than a surprise.
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3.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Mar 15, 2008 Type: User Review |
No psycho-babble, just interesting humanity
With WHAT THE DEAD KNOW, Laura Lippman hooked me from page one, kept me going, had me "going," and finally reversed everything in an unexpected way, brilliantly wrapping the story's climax into its denouement. This tale is a skillful work which...
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Feb 16, 2008 Type: User Review |
MIXED EMOTIONS ABOUT THIS
This is a late review for a book that has been on the market for a long time, but I just happened to buy it a few weeks ago. I love Laura Lippman's writing, both stories and style, therefore I gave this 2 stars ........ BUT .......... being a...
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 2.00/5 |
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