Life Sentences: A Novel

Life Sentences: A Novel

<p class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">“From its gripping opening pages…<em>Life Sentences</em> may be the most absorbing, entertaining mystery published in the last year.”<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">—<em>Boston Globe<o:p></o:p></em></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><em><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">USA Today </span></em><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">calls Laura Lippman, “A writing powerhouse,” and <em>Life Sentences </em>powerfully confirms it. <span style="COLOR: black">Past and present, truth and memory collide in this searing novel from a <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author whose novels have won virtually <em>every </em>major prize bestowed for  crime fiction—from the Edgar® to the Anthony to the Agatha to the Nero Wolfe Award. As she did in her blockbuster <em>What the Dead Know, </em>Lippman takes a brief hiatus from her popular series character, Baltimore p.i. Tess Monaghan, to tell a riveting story of deceptions and dangerously fragile truths that <em>People </em>magazine says, “Succeeds brilliantly.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>