Life Sentences

<p>From its gripping opening pages...<em>Life Sentences</em> may be the most absorbing entertaining mystery published in the last year.<p></p></p><p>--<em>Boston Globe<p></p></em></p> <p> </p></p><p><em>USA Today </em>calls Laura Lippman A writing powerhouse and <em>Life Sentences </em>powerfully confirms it. Past and present truth and memory collide in this searing novel from a <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author whose novels have won virtually <em>every </em>major prize bestowed for crime fiction--from the Edgar(R) to the Anthony to the Agatha to the Nero Wolfe Award. As she did in her blockbuster <em>What the Dead Know </em>Lippman takes a brief hiatus from her popular series character Baltimore p.i. Tess Monaghan to tell a riveting story of deceptions and dangerously fragile truths that <em>People </em>magazine says Succeeds brilliantly.<p></p></p>