What the Dead Know - by Laura Lippman
On the back cover:
Thirty years ago, the two Bethany sisters, ages 11 and 15 disappeared from a Baltimore shopping mall. They never returned, their bodies were never found, and only painful questions remain.
Thirty years ago, the two Bethany sisters, ages 11 and 15 disappeared from a Baltimore shopping mall. They never returned, their bodies were never found, and only painful questions remain.
How do you kidnap two girls from a busy mall on a Saturday afternoon without leaving behind a single clue of witness?
Now, decades later, in the aftermath of a rush-house hit and run accident, a clearly disoriented woman is claiming to be Heather, the younger Bethany sister. Not a shred of evidence supports her story, and every lead she reluctantly offers takes the police to another dead end – a dying, incoherent man; a razed house; a missing grave.
But there is something she knows about the terrible day… and about a family that disintegrated long ago, torn apart by an unthinkable tragedy and the fissures it revealed in a seemingly perfect household.
My take:
I just finished this book last night so here is my review:
In the category of mystery / suspense thriller – this is a very slow moving book. Yes it is a mystery and I really did want to know then end, but it did not grab me like I thought it would after hearing about it and reading the back cover.
There are some predictable parts, a few twists, but there are also a few hard to believe parts.
My rating: 2 out of 5 stars.
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