Virtual Book Tour: What the Dead Know
I received a copy of What the Dead Know: A Novel by Laura Lippman from her publisher, Harper Collins through the book tour at BlogHer. I am so incredibly grateful to have received this book. It is an amazing read!
The premise is this: Two sisters (15 and almost 12) go to a mall the Saturday before Easter, 1975. Their father is working in his store, and their mother is working as a Realtor. They never come back. No one finds bodies, nor any traces of them anywhere.
Then, thirty years later, a woman is driving through the area, and is in a car accident. She walks away from the accident, stunned, and when the police catch up with her, she says she is one of the sisters. She is hospitalized for her injuries, and is very reluctant to talk about her time away and about her current life.
The book goes back and forth between a week in the current time and 1975 and the years that follow. The story evolves, telling what happens with the parents, and what the woman tells the police and other people. The police also find information that leaves them wondering - is she really the girl who disappeared? I’ve always been a sucker for books about missing people, and this one has so many twists and turns I enjoyed following, I was consistently annoyed when my eyes couldn’t stay open longer to finish reading!
What the Dead Know: A Novel unfurls the story, and you are immediately gripped by the plot, and drawn in. I was actually scootering back from the park while reading so I could finish the last few pages (and I didn’t hit anyone!), as the mystery was solved in a way I had never expected - I couldn’t put it down! I am immensely grateful to Harper Collins for giving me this book. I strongly recommend you pick one up when it is released tomorrow or request one from the library - but get one soon, it is absolutely worth reading. It is a truly fabulous book. I’ll be looking for other books by Laura Lippman!
