Every Secret Thing

A big disappointment for me. The beginning of the book promises an offbeat, unique, psychological mystery. We are told that two fifth-grade girls murder a baby. However, the promise, the tension, and the mystery slowly dissolve in a flood of lengthy and completely irrelevant characterizations of mar......more

This was the first Laura Lippman book I've read. I'm told she is a great mystery writer but this book is not one of her best. It started out as a great mystery but I found it rather slow. I was hoping it was leading up to a great ending. I must admit part of it kept me guessing but the end result le......more

This is a hard book to read, but not because it isn't written superbly. The difficulty is that there isn't a pleasant character, deed, or thought from page one to the end. No joy. The complex story unfolds bit by bit, grudgingly revealed under Lippman's very capable control. I guess you have to deci......more

Review contains spoilers. Oh this book...where to start. I do think Laura Lippman is a great writer, but there were things about this book that annoyed me. One was the whole Alice is fat thing. Okay, we get that she is overweight. Does it need to be mentioned almost every time she appears. "Oh, Alice......more

Laura Lippman is another author recommended to me after my recent Gillian Flynn binge. She has a weighty volume of work to choose from, but I was drawn to the description of Every Secret Thing for my first . 11 year olds Ronnie and Alice are neighborhood friends unexpectedly -- and perhaps unjustly......more