I’d Know You Anywhere
Author(s): Laura Lippman
Laura Lippman is among the select group of novelists who have invigorated the crime fiction arena with smart, innovative, and exciting work.
George Pelecanos
Lippmans taut, mesmerizing, and exceptionally smart drama of predator and prey is at once unusually sensitive and utterly compelling.
Booklist
Laura Lippman, New York Times bestselling author of What the Dead Know, Life Sentences, and the acclaimed Tess Monaghan p.i. series, delivers a stunning stand-alone novel that explores the lasting effects on lives touched by crime. With Id Know You Anywhere, Lippmanmaster of mystery and psychological suspense, winner of every major literary prize given for crime fiction, including the Edgar, Agatha, and Nero Wolfe Awardstells a gripping and richly textured tale of a young woman whose life dangerously entwines once again with a man on Death Row who had kidnapped her when she was a teenager. This is superior mystery writing in the vein of Kate Atkinson.
Review(s):
Ex-journalist Lippman never forgets as she moves from past to present and from perspective to perspective that nothing is more importantor more elusivethan the truth.
Id Know You Anywhere continues Laura Lippmans extraordinary run of stand-alone novels (alternating with her lighter books about private eye Tess Monaghan). From its unsettling opening to its breathtaking conclusion, Anywhere exemplifies Lippmans strengths: compassion, intense prose and deep empathy for the snares of ambiguous emotions.
Lippman deftly keeps the balls aloft with a strong structure — a straight-ahead chronology interrupted by surgical flashbacks — and evocative writing.
Shes one of the best novelists around, period.
Lippmans dedicated fans will find themselves well rewarded with ID KNOW YOU ANYWHERE, an exceptional novel in every way, which is sure to gain her many new followers.
With the summer reading season coming to a close, dont let ID KNOW YOU ANYWHERE be the one that got away.
Id Know You Anywhere ranks with her very best.
The popular mystery-series authors latest stand-alone: a terrifying story about a death-row inmate obsessed with the only victim he left alive.
This is a story that grips you not with suspense but with its acute psychological autopsy of a survivor. Lippmans knack for elucidating the horrors humans can inflict on one another through violence and manipulation while telling a compelling story is disarming and fascinating.-
Id Know You Anywhere is a crime story, but its not a whodunit. Rather, its an exquisitely sensitive story about the psychological impact of crime on its victims. Its a story about shame, about anger, about survivors guilt.
ISBN:9780061979224
