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USA Today calls Laura Lippman, โA writing powerhouse,โ and Life Sentences powerfully confirms it. Past and present, truth and memory collide in this searing novel from a New York Times bestselling author whose novels have won virtually every major prize bestowed forย crime fictionโfrom the Edgarยฎ to the Anthony to the Agatha to the Nero Wolfe Award. As she did in her blockbuster What the Dead Know, 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 People magazine says, โSucceeds brilliantly.โ
Since Laura Lippmanโs debut, she has been recognized as a distinctive voice in mystery fiction and named one of the โessentialโ crime writers of the last 100 years. Stephen King called her โspecial, even extraordinary,โ and Gillian Flynn wrote, โShe is simply a brilliant novelist.โ Her books have won most of the major awards in her field and been translated into more than twenty-five languages. She lives in Baltimore and New Orleans with her teenager.