2012: #25 – The Most Dangerous Thing (Laura Lippman)

Title: The Most Dangerous Thing Author: Laura Lippman Format: Hardcover Pages: 352 (2012 total – 6,185) Approx. Word Count: 105,600 (2012 total – 1,726,214) Release Date: August 23, 2011 Publisher: Avon Categories: general fiction Source: ARC from LibraryThing Rating: 2 out of 5 Back of the book: Some secrets can’t be kept… Years ago, they were all the best of friends. But as time passed and

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2012: #11 – Hardly Knew Her (Laura Lippman)

Title: Hardly Knew Her Author: Laura Lippman Format: Audio Length: 9 hrs 25 min Release Date: October 7, 2008 Publisher: William Morrow Categories: general fiction, short stories Source: personal copy Rating: 4.5 out of 5 Back of the book: New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award

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2011: #34 – Every Secret Thing (Laura Lippman)

Book #34 was Every Secret Thing by Laura Lippman. The back of the book reads: Two little girls banished from a neighborhood birthday party take a wrong turn down an unfamiliar Baltimore street—and encounter an abandoned stroller with an infant inside. What happens next is shocking and terrible, and three families are irreparably destroyed. Seven years later, Alice Manning and Ronnie Fuller, now eighteen, are

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2011: #9 – Charm City (Laura Lippman)

Book #9 was Charm City, the second book in Laura Lippman’s Tess Monaghan series.  The back of the book reads: Reporter-turned-PI Tess Monaghan loves every inch of her native Baltimore—a quirky city where baseball reigns and homicide seems to be the second most popular sport. Business tycoon "Wink" Wynkowski wants to change all that by bringing pro basketball back to town—a laudable mission that’s greeted

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