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Andi Arndt
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Laura Lippman
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"Well-plotted, well-written, clear-eyed. I never saw the end coming. There's a hell of a one-two punch waiting for you." —Stephen King
New York Times bestseller Laura Lippman tells the story of Amber Glass, desperately trying to get away from her tabloid past but compulsively drawn back to the city of her youth and the prom date who destroyed everything she was reaching for.
Amber Glass has spent her entire adult life putting as much distance as possible between her and her hometown of Baltimore, where she fears she will forever be known as “Prom Mom”—the girl who allegedly killed her baby on the night of the prom after her date, Joe Simpson, abandoned her to pursue the girl he really liked. But when circumstances bring Amber back to the city, she realizes she can have a second chance—as long as she stays away from Joe, now a successful commercial real estate developer, married to a plastic surgeon, Meredith, to whom he is devoted.
The problem is, Amber can’t stay away from Joe. And Joe finds that it’s increasingly hard for him to ignore Amber, if only because she remembers the boy he was and the man he said he was going to be. Against the surreal backdrop of 2020 and early 2021, the two are slowly drawn to each other and eventually cross the line they’ve been trying not to cross.
And then Joe asks Amber to help him do the unthinkable . . . and she must decide if she is willing to let their toxic and dangerous past repeat itself.
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In the summer of 1985, when she was fifteen, Eliza was kidnapped by Walter and held hostage for almost six weeks. He had killed at least one girl and Eliza always suspected he had other victims as well. Now on death row in Virginia for the rape and murder of his final victim, Walter seems to be making a heartfelt act of contrition as his execution nears. Though Eliza wants nothing to do with him, she's never forgotten that Walter was most unpredictable when ignored.
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Excellent read!
- By Pamela Harvey on 08-21-10
By: Laura Lippman
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To the Power of Three
- A Novel
- By: Laura Lippman
- Narrated by: Alexandra O'Karma
- Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Lippman's brilliant and disturbing tale of three inseparable high school girlfriends in an affluent Baltimore suburb who share dark secrets literally until death, To the Power of Three is this "writing powerhouse" ( USA Today), who has "exploded the boundaries of the mystery genre to become one of the most significant social realists of our time" (Madison Smartt Bell) operating at the very top of her game.
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Worst narration ever.
- By Wendy on 08-09-16
By: Laura Lippman
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The Most Dangerous Thing
- By: Laura Lippman
- Narrated by: Linda Emond
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
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Years ago, they were all the best of friends. But as time passed and circumstances changed, they grew apart, became adults with families of their own, and began to forget about the past—and the terrible lie they all shared. But now Gordon, the youngest and wildest of the five, has died and the others are thrown together for the first time in years.
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Needs a Cast of Characters
- By Pamela Harvey on 08-26-11
By: Laura Lippman
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Sunburn
- A Novel
- By: Laura Lippman
- Narrated by: Susan Bennett
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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They meet at a local tavern in the small town of Belleville, Delaware. Polly is set on heading west. Adam says he's also passing through. Yet she stays, and he stays - drawn to this mysterious redhead whose quiet stillness both unnerves and excites him. Over the course of a punishing summer, Polly and Adam abandon themselves to a steamy, inexorable affair. Still, each holds something back from the other - dangerous, even lethal secrets. Then someone dies. Was it an accident or part of a plan? By now Adam and Polly are so ensnared in each other's lives and lies that neither one knows how to get away.
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Excellent noir novel
- By Kombucha on 02-22-18
By: Laura Lippman
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Life Sentences
- By: Laura Lippman
- Narrated by: Linda Emond
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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Author Cassandra Fallows has achieved remarkable success by baring her life on the page. Her two widely popular memoirs continue to sell briskly, acclaimed for their brutal, unexpurgated candor about friends, family, lovers - and herself. But now, after a singularly unsuccessful stab at fiction, Cassandra believes she may have found the story that will enable her triumphant return to nonfiction.
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Good book; great reader!
- By RKNS on 05-25-10
By: Laura Lippman
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The Murder Mile
- By: Lesley McEvoy
- Narrated by: Anna Cordell
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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Jo was the last person to see Martha Scott alive. She was helping Martha unlock a repressed memory. But during the session, Jo unlocked more than she bargained for. An alter personality introduced himself as the reincarnation of Jack the Ripper - and thanked Jo for setting him free to kill again. As Ferguson’s team race to find Martha’s killer, a series of copycat killings begin, replicating ‘The Autumn of Terror’ in 1888. But if Jack is just a figment of Martha’s damaged mind, who killed her?
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I loved the British accents.
- By Michael Palmer on 01-18-25
By: Lesley McEvoy
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Slow Burner
- Hush Collection
- By: Laura Lippman
- Narrated by: Amy McFadden
- Length: 54 mins
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Liz Kelsey promised herself she’d never again spy on her feckless husband, Phil. But then she discovers a string of suggestive texts on his secret burner phone. Even worse, he’s flirting with the woman who shook their unstable marriage once before. But knowledge is power. What’s more dangerous - what Liz knows or what Phil doesn’t know?
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Marriage in Greek Mythology
- By Admiralu on 07-30-20
By: Laura Lippman
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Dream Girl
- A Novel
- By: Laura Lippman
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
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Injured in a freak fall, novelist Gerry Andersen is confined to a hospital bed in his glamorous high-rise apartment, dependent on two women he barely knows: his incurious young assistant, and a dull, slow-witted night nurse. Then late one night, the phone rings. The caller claims to be the “real” Aubrey, the alluring title character from his most successful novel, Dream Girl. But there is no real Aubrey. She’s a figment born of a writer’s imagination, despite what many believe or claim to know.
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You might like it. I didn’t.
- By Tawny on 06-23-21
By: Laura Lippman
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The Sheltering Sky
- A Novel
- By: Paul Bowles
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
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In this classic work of psychological terror, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans apprehend other cultures--and the ways in which their incomprehension destroys them. The story of three American travelers adrift in the cities and deserts of North Africa after World War II, The Sheltering Sky is at once merciless and heartbreaking in its compassion. It etches the limits of human reason and intelligence--perhaps even the limits of human life --when they touch the unfathomable emptiness and impassive cruelty of the dessert.
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Classic Work of American 20th Century Fiction
- By Christian B. Kaufman on 06-12-24
By: Paul Bowles
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Phantom Evil
- Krewe of Hunters, Book 1
- By: Heather Graham
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Cummings
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
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A secret government unit is formed under the oversight of Adam Harrison, famed paranormal investigator. The case: In a historic mansion in New Orleans’ French Quarter, a senator’s wife falls to her death from a balcony. Most think she jumped, distraught over the loss of her young son. Some say she was pushed. And yet others believe she was beckoned by the ghostly spirits that inhabit the house - once the site of a serial killer’s grisly work.
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Surpisingly good!!
- By Shirley on 05-19-13
By: Heather Graham
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And When She Was Good
- By: Laura Lippman
- Narrated by: Linda Emond
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
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Heloise considers it a blessing to be a person who seldom attracts attention. In her suburb, she's just a mom, the young widow with the forgettable job, who somehow never misses a soccer game. In the state capital, she's the redheaded lobbyist with a good cause and a mediocre track record. But in discreet hotel rooms throughout the area, she's the woman of your dreams - if you can afford the hourly fee. For more than a decade, Heloise believed she was safe, managing to keep up this rigidly compartmentalized life. But her secret life is under siege. One county over, another so-called suburban madam has been found dead in her car, an apparent suicide.
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And When She Was Bad...
- By Carole T. on 08-18-12
By: Laura Lippman
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My Life as a Villainess
- Essays
- By: Laura Lippman
- Narrated by: Laura Lippman
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
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New York Times best-selling author Laura Lippman, a journalist for many years, collects here her recent essays exploring motherhood as an older mom, her life as a reader, her relationships with her parents, friendship, and other topics that will resonate with a large audience. Her voice is wry and relatable, her takes often surprising. Meet the woman behind the books....
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I’m a villainess too.
- By Jason Carr on 03-12-25
By: Laura Lippman
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We Are Watching
- A Novel
- By: Alison Gaylin
- Narrated by: Jennifer Pickens
- Length: 10 hrs
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Meg Russo was behind the wheel when it happened. She and her husband Justin were driving their daughter Lily to Ithaca College, the family celebrating the eighteen-year-old music prodigy’s future. Then a car swerved up beside them, the young men inside it behaving bizarrely—and Meg lost control of her own vehicle. The family road trip turned into a tragedy. Justin didn’t survive the accident.
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Conspiracy theory on steroids
- By Pink Amy on 01-29-25
By: Alison Gaylin
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The House Across the Lake
- A Novel
- By: Riley Sager
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
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Casey Fletcher, a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press, has retreated to the peace and quiet of her family’s lake house in Vermont. Armed with a pair of binoculars and several bottles of bourbon, she passes the time watching Tom and Katherine Royce, the glamorous couple living in the house across the lake. They make for good viewing—a tech innovator, Tom is powerful; and a former model, Katherine is gorgeous.
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Very odd narrator select
- By SSmith on 06-21-22
By: Riley Sager
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- Becky Osborn
- 08-11-23
Bummer
I was really enjoying the story even though it was starting to drag a little bit. But the ending was awful or
maybe i’m just stupid? Whatever I thought the ending was so bad.
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- K
- 07-31-23
Like Liberal Rants? You‘lol love this novel…
I’ve been a Laura Lippman fan for years, but she’s such a seething Trump hater that she couldn’t resist infusing her most mediocre story to date with snide asides about the former president.
She slathered on a bunch of white privilege guilt for good measure. Ugh. Lippman’s slipping.
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- Tina
- 07-31-23
A bit Cringe
I've really enjoyed a lot of Laura Lippman books in the past, but this felt contrived and a bit like a plot from a 'Lifetime Movie'.
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- Carol A.
- 08-13-23
Disappointing
The story seemed to hold some promise but it just slogged along. The last chapter had a slight twist but just not enough. The cover made you think the story would be much better than it was.
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- Susannah 111
- 10-13-23
Not worth the time
This is a slow, meandering story featuring characters with few redeeming qualities. And their occupations — real estate, plastic surgery, outsider-art gallerist— lack drama in the exposition. I hope Laura Lipman isn’t losing her touch. Narration was good, though.
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- Pink Amy
- 07-28-23
Mild spoilers
I really hate when Goodreads eats my well thought out reviews because I have zero interest in rewriting.
After giving birth and convicted of killing her 28 week fetus, Amber is nicknamed PROM MOM and her date Joe, Cad Dad. Over 20 years later in 2020, Joe proves that he hasn’t given up his caddish ways. He’s having an affair with Jordan, who’s blackmailing him. Married to Meredith, a plastic surgeon whom he doesn’t deserve he also begins an affair with Amber whom Joe feels he can truly be himself. Amber is a hot mess, from coercing Joe to ask her to prom with sex as a teenager to sleeping with Joe as an adult and trying to help him when he’s giving her nothing emotionally. While Jordan is an off-her-rocker stalker, she also blindly loves Joe. Why, I cannot determine.
Other reviewers have called PROM MOM a slow burn. For me it was a lot of nothing much happening to Joe, Meredith and Amber, the three points of view. In the backdrop of the pandemic, I was glad Laura Lippman didn’t focus much on COVID other than as a small part of the environment of the story. PROM MOM is not a pandemic book, thankfully.
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- DWN
- 08-23-23
Last two books by an amazing author
Have really bummed me out. me
thinks they might be a little autobiographical what ever the reason I liked it when the good girl won in the end
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- Peter Altschuler
- 12-01-23
Unbelievable politics and ending
We see another book here that the author uses to throw in left wing politics and does a poor job of it. Her political remarks have absolutely nothing to do with the story. Neither does setting part of it during the pandemic. The ending makes no sense at all. I want my money back. Put this in the description if you are going to insert your far fetched political ideas, also based on nothing, and see how many audible formats of this book you sell. I cannot believe the overall rating numbers.
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- SKSepdeda
- 07-28-23
Great.... except for the politics
Excellent potential, I was pulled in from the first chapter (very unusual for me), and I was excited for a new novel by this author. The insertion of the author's politics were cringe- I wished she had just issued a piece on her political agenda instead of forcing it in this medium. If you want a read regarding equity & wokeness, you will love this. I am perfectly fine with the views of the author, I just would have not preferred them forced in a fiction novel, to which I was looking forward, Great story ruined by the author's agenda. The storyline was quite intriguing, as was the character development.
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- Shelly Hilsman
- 03-05-24
Not that good.
It took all I had to finish this book. It was not good at all.
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