![]() ![]() ![]() Agent: Vicky Bijur, Vicky Bijur Literary. AFTER I'M GONE actually got quite good at this point, and the outcome of who done it was very clever. The treat was late in coming as it came toward the end of the book as Sandy was wrapping up the investigation. Not every entry is top-notch, but anything from Lippman is worth reading. Whenever I hear Laura Lippman, I normally know I am in for a real treat. Booksellers will relish “The Book Thing,” in which PI Tess Monaghan, Lippman’s series lead, catches the man stealing inventory from indie bookstores-and discovers his extraordinary use for the books. Another standout is “Five Fires,” in which a jealous small-town deli worker is determined to find the arsonist setting nearby fires, but her schizophrenia conceals the shocking truth about the crimes. She takes matters into her own hands, with frightening results. She tries to trivialize it as an example of Phil’s “delight in being new to someone, anyone,” but soon realizes this affair runs as deeply as the first. Her first personal essay collection, My Life as a Villainess, features stories about motherhood, her family. Then Liz finds a burner phone in the laundry basket with incriminating texts on it. Laura Lippman is best known for her crime fiction and her Tess Monaghan series. ![]() In the edgy “Slow Burner,” a married couple, Liz and Phil, engage in metaphorical fisticuffs after healing from the husband’s infidelity a year previously. Bestseller Lippman ( Dream Girl) displays her uncanny understanding of human nature and all its foibles in this worthy collection of 12 stories involving deceit, violence, and psychological mayhem. ![]()
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