Laura Lippman

Wilde Lake (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An African-American man accused of rape by a humiliated girl. A vengeful father. A courageous attorney. A worshipful daughter. Think you know this story? Think again.

Laura Lippman, the extravagantly gifted (Chicago Tribune) New York Times bestselling author, delivers one of her best novels (Washington Post)a modern twist on To Kill a Mockingbird. Scott Turow writes in the New York Times, Wilde Lake is a real success.

Luisa Lu Brant is the newly elected state's attorney representing suburban Marylandincluding the famous planned community of Columbia, created to be a utopia of racial and economic equality. Prosecuting a controversial case involving a disturbed drifter accused of beating a woman to death, the fiercely ambitious Lu is determined to avoid the traps that have destroyed other competitive, successful women. She's going to play it smart to win this caseand win bigcementing her political future.

But her intensive preparation for trial unexpectedly dredges up painful recollections of another crimethe night when her brother, AJ, saved his best friend at the cost of another man's life. Only eighteen, AJ was cleared by a grand jury. Justice was done. Or was it? Did the events of 1980 happen as she remembers them? She was only a child then. What details didn't she know?

As she plunges deeper into the past, Lu is forced to face a troubling reality. The legal system, the bedrock of her entire life, does not have all the answers. But what happens when she realizes that, for the first time, she doesn't want to know the whole truth?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780062083470
• Artikelnr.: 44121028

Autorenporträt

Since Laura Lippman's debut, she has been recognized as a distinctive voice in mystery fiction and named one of the essential crime writers of the last 100 years. Stephen King called her special, even extraordinary, and Gillian Flynn wrote, She is simply a brilliant novelist. 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.