Every Secret Thing eBook Laura Lippman
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It is early evening, summer time and hot. Two eleven-year-old girls, Alice and Ronnie, are on their way home from a swimming party when they happen to see a baby's stroller, with baby girl sleeping inside, left unattended on the top step of a house. Ronnie says to Alice 'We have to take care of this baby.' But what exactly does she mean?
Four days later the body of little Olivia Barnes is discovered in a hut in Baltimore's rambling Leakin Park by a young rookie detective, Nancy Porter. What can have happened in those four days to bring about this appalling crime? The girls are arrested and found guilty. Seven years later Ronnie and Alice, now eighteen, are released from their separate prisons, back into their old neighbourhood where the mother of baby Olivia still lives. Another child goes missing, and Nancy Porter and her partner get the case ...
Every Secret Thing eBook Laura Lippman
I was really in the mood for a mystery, and the synopsis of this one really appealed to me.This book is about two girls, Ronnie and Alice, who committed an unspeakable crime when they were 11 years old. Their actions resulted in the death of a toddler and they were both sentenced to time in juvie. Seven years have passed and they have been released from their respective juvenile detention centers at the start of the novel. A short time later, a 3-year-old girl goes missing.
To say much more would give away too much. This is definitely a book that you wouldn't want to know very much about before reading it for yourself. The novel took a few surprising twists and turns, but there were no real mind-blowing shockers.
I don't have an issue with police procedural shows, movies, or books. I really enjoyed those aspects of this book. But the character development, even with the detectives, seemed forced to me. None of the characters really had a whole lot of depth or originality, they were all fairly one-dimensional. There were also several auxiliary characters that I didn't find to be completely necessary. I thought it would have been better had the book just followed the detectives, Alice, and Ronnie. The author seemed to have spread herself too thin trying to incorporate all of the various characters with their various storylines. It just seemed like kind of a mess at times.
As I said, I was surprised; which is what I want from a mystery novel. I would prefer to have my mind blown by the author, but that isn't always the case.
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Every Secret Thing eBook Laura Lippman Reviews
So many of the adults in this book were just unlikeabe, self centered and shallow. Alice and Ronnie were damaged psychologically because of the messed up adults in their lives. I did feel empathy for these girls - more so than any of the adults in this book. Helen was horrible person, Cynthia was a judgemental unlikeable person - even though it was her daughter that was murdered. Sharon was another self centered character full of insecurities. Nancy was also always seeking approval from her peers and insecure. Mira's (reporter) character didn't even need to be in this book. I guess we can all figure out what the story is with Rosalind, but, it seems far fetched. This book was a page turner, but, I don't think I would read another Laura Lippman story.
Two eleven year old girls are asked to leave a birthday party after one of them gets angry and accidentally hits the birthday girl’s mother. They are allowed to leave without a ride home and without any adult supervision. On their way home, they spot a baby in a carriage, unsupervised, outside the closed door of a house. The girls take the baby and later say that they took the baby to protect it and keep it safe. The problem is that the baby is dead. Did one of the girls kill it, or both, or did it die naturally of SIDS? Only the girls know the truth and they blame each other. Seven years later, babies are going missing again. Is it one or both of the girls, just recently home from juvenile detention, as the mother of the deceased baby thinks, or is it someone else?
Every Secret Thing is a really good mystery with lots of twists. Some of the twists I anticipated in advance, but others took me by surprise. It is told through a variety of the characters’ views, sometimes switching from one to another too fast for my taste, but it does add more detail to the story. I hate to say it, but I didn’t really like any of the characters in Every Secret Thing, but I’m not sure Lippman wants the reader to like them. I did kind of like the detective, Nancy, but she wasn’t really well-developed enough to gain much investment from me. I didn’t trust either of the two girls, and I really didn’t like the mother of the baby that was killed in the beginning. She just seemed self-important, judgmental, and bossy. Alice’s mother seemed odd, and I wasn’t sure what to think about Alice’s lawyer, but I didn’t really like her either. The reporter obviously didn’t care about anyone other than herself and I never understood what had caused her to become stuck at such a low-level position to begin with. Despite the character issues, Every Secret Thing keeps you guessing, making you question what you think you already know. It had me racing to the end to find out if my suspicions were accurate or not. It was a thrilling ride and I was itching to know what the truth really was.
I recommend this one, with just a little complaint that the character POV change was too abrupt at times. You can read more of my reviews at http//bookwormbookreviews.com
This was an amazing read. The characters were very well-developed and the story had enough twists and turns to keep me really interested the whole way through. I'm anxious to see the movie version - although it doesn't take place in Baltimore. Considering this book was written in 2004, what we're seeing in the news today regarding Baltimore shows that not much has changed in the city; I find that sad. I loved Ronnie and I don't know if I was supposed to, but I felt for her, my heart broke for her - I felt she had so much to offer. The flip side of that coin, of course, is how I felt about Alice...and I didn't like her at all...not as an 11 year old, not as an "adult."
This book is good - I would put it up there with other favorites in the genre such as "Gone Girl" and most of Gillian Flynn's books. This was MUCH better than "Girl on the Train" in my opinion and I don't usually choose this genre.
I loved this book.
I was really in the mood for a mystery, and the synopsis of this one really appealed to me.
This book is about two girls, Ronnie and Alice, who committed an unspeakable crime when they were 11 years old. Their actions resulted in the death of a toddler and they were both sentenced to time in juvie. Seven years have passed and they have been released from their respective juvenile detention centers at the start of the novel. A short time later, a 3-year-old girl goes missing.
To say much more would give away too much. This is definitely a book that you wouldn't want to know very much about before reading it for yourself. The novel took a few surprising twists and turns, but there were no real mind-blowing shockers.
I don't have an issue with police procedural shows, movies, or books. I really enjoyed those aspects of this book. But the character development, even with the detectives, seemed forced to me. None of the characters really had a whole lot of depth or originality, they were all fairly one-dimensional. There were also several auxiliary characters that I didn't find to be completely necessary. I thought it would have been better had the book just followed the detectives, Alice, and Ronnie. The author seemed to have spread herself too thin trying to incorporate all of the various characters with their various storylines. It just seemed like kind of a mess at times.
As I said, I was surprised; which is what I want from a mystery novel. I would prefer to have my mind blown by the author, but that isn't always the case.
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