Wilde Lake
'A knockout' Stephen King
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4.1 • 7 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
WINNER OF THE eDUNNIT AWARD
'Intriguing premise, stunning reveal, irresistible read.' VAL McDERMID
'A satisfying mystery' ALEX MARWOOD
'Engrossing, suspenseful and substantial.' SCOTT TUROW
In an acclaimed modern twist on To Kill a Mockingbird, Laura Lippman once again proves herself to be one of crime writing's most thrilling reads.
Luisa Brant has just been elected State's Attorney, a job her revered father once held, and is prosecuting her first murder, by a homeless man on a woman to whom he had seemingly no connection. However, as Luisa investigates, she is startled to learn that this murder might have its roots in a violent event in the past involving her own family. And that maybe no one - her precious father, her brother, her late mother - is quite who she thought. ..
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
There were times while reading this artfully constructed novel that we were reminded of To Kill a Mockingbird. Bouncing between different eras, Wilde Lake is the story of Lu Brant, an ambitious American lawyer who becomes the first female district attorney in Maryland’s tony Columbia County. As a young girl, Lu learns about her brother AJ’s involvement in a local murder, but years later she realises the court’s finding that he acted in self defense isn't airtight. Laura Lippman, author of the Tess Monaghan series, is a terrific writer—this intelligent thriller held us in thrall every step of the way.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Luisa "Lu" Brant, the heroine of this richly plotted and emotionally devastating standalone from Lippman (Hush, Hush), has been newly elected as state's attorney of Maryland's Howard County. She's back in her hometown of Columbia, where she and her brother, AJ, eight years her senior, were raised by their widowed father, Andrew Jackson Brant, a formidable prosecutor with an Atticus Finch sense of justice and morality. Widowed herself and raising eight-year-old twins, Lu lives in the house where she grew up replete with memories of a mostly friendless childhood spent tagging after AJ or reading. Everything in the Brants' lives is cleaved into before and after a shocking act of violence on the night of AJ's high school graduation in 1980. When Lu takes on her first murder case as state's attorney a woman is found beaten and strangled in her apartment she has no idea that the defendant, a mentally unstable drifter, could be connected to a larger pattern of darkness stretching back to her childhood. Lippman plays with the concept of truth and expertly homes in on the question of whether there are some truths we never want to know.
