Audiobooks by Laura Lippman

The New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed standalones After I'm Gone, I'd Know You Anywhere, and What the Dead Know, challenges our notions of memory, loyalty, responsibility, and justice in this evocative and psychologically complex story about a long-ago death that still haunts a family. Luisa "Lu" Brant is the newly elected-and first female-state's attorney of Howard County, Maryland, a job in which her widower father famously served. Fiercely intelligent and ambitious, she sees an opportunity to make her name by trying a mentally disturbed drifter accused of beating a woman to death in her home. It's not the kind of case that makes headlines, but peaceful Howard county doesn't see many homicides. As Lu prepares for the trial, the case dredges up painful memories, reminding her small but tight-knit family of the 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. Now, Lu wonders if the events of 1980 happened as she remembers them. What details might have been withheld from her when she was a child? The more she learns about the case, the more questions arise. What does it mean to be a man or woman of one's times? Why do we ask our heroes of the past to conform to the present's standards? Is that fair? Is it right? Propelled into the past, she discovers that the legal system, the bedrock of her entire life, does not have all the answers. Lu realizes that even if she could learn the whole truth, she probably wouldn't want to.

Laura Lippman (Author), Kathleen McInerney, Nicole Poole (Narrator)

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What the Dead Know

Thirty years ago two sisters disappeared from a shopping mall. Their bodies were never found and those familiar with the case have always been tortured by these questions: How do you kidnap two girls? Who'or what'could have lured the two sisters away from a busy mall on a Saturday afternoon without leaving behind a single clue or witness? Now a clearly disoriented woman involved in a rush-hour hit-and-run claims to be the younger of the long-gone Bethany sisters. But her involuntary admission and subsequent attempt to stonewall investigators only deepens the mystery. Where has she been, why has she waited so long to come forward? Could her abductor truly be a beloved Baltimore cop? There isn't a shred of evidence to support her story, and every lead she gives the police seems to be another dead-end'a dying, incoherent man, a razed house, a missing grave, and a family that disintegrated long ago, torn apart not only by the crime but by the fissures the tragedy revealed in what appeared to be the perfect household. In a story that moves back and forth across the decades, there is only one person who dares to be skeptical of a woman who wants to claim the identity of one Bethany sister without revealing the fate of the other. Will he be able to discover the truth?

Laura Lippman (Author), Linda Emond (Narrator)

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What He Needed

Lippman shows herself to be a master of short fiction....read them fast, like a glutton, or slowly to savor each one. Either way, this is a treasure." - Library Journal What He Needed An unhappy woman in an unhappy marriage finds a way to escape her husband's emotional blackmail. "Lippman fans won't be disappointed with these small treasures." - Kirkus Reviews

Laura Lippman (Author), Francois Battiste, Linda Emond (Narrator)

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Vad de döda vet

Systrarna Heather och Sunny Bethany ska bara göra några ärenden på ett av Baltimores stora köpcentrum, ett ställe de besökt många gånger förr. Men den här dagen blir det annorlunda – de återvänder aldrig därifrån. Dagar blir till veckor som blir till månader och år, utan att minsta spår efter de två systrarna dyker upp. Trettio år senare skadas en kvinna i en smitningsolycka. När hon tas om hand hävdar hon att hennes namn är Heather Bethany, mer än så kan hon inte säga. Polisen står handfallen inför kvinnans påstående. Är hon verkligen den hon utger sig för att vara? Var har hon i så fall hållit hus under alla dessa år och vad hände egentligen den där dagen i varuhuset? Men viktigast av allt: var är hennes syster, Sunny? ”Vad de döda vet” är en välskriven psykologisk thriller, med smart intrig och överraskande upplösning. Författaren, Laura Lippman, är känd bland annat för sin hyllade serie om privatdetektiven Tess Monaghan. Hennes böcker har vunnit flera priser och syns ofta på topplistorna i USA.

Laura Lippman (Author), Kerstin Andersson (Narrator)

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To the Power of Three: A Novel

There are excellent reasons why New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has won the Edgar®, Agatha, Anthony, Nero Wolfe, and every other major award the mystery genre has to offer. To the Power of Three is just one of those reasons. Lippman's brilliant and disturbing tale of three inseparable high school girlfriends in an affluent Baltimore suburb who share dark secrets literally until death, To the Power of Three is this "writing powerhouse" (USA Today), who has "exploded the boundaries of the mystery genre to become one of the most significant social realists of our time" (Madison Smartt Bell) operating at the very top of her game. Not merely crime fiction, but fiction that gets to the deep psychological, emotional, and human roots of a terrible crime, Lippman's novel is one that will not be easily forgotten-a must read for fans of Kate Atkinson, Tana French, Jodi Picoult, and Harlan Coben.

Laura Lippman (Author), Alexandra O'karma, Laura Lippman (Narrator)

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To the Power of Three

The three girls have been inseparable best friends since third grade -- Josie, the athletic one; Perri, the brilliant, acerbic drama queen; and Kat the beauty, who also had brains, grace, and a heart open to all around her. But their last day of high school becomes their final day together after one of them brings a gun to school to resolve a mysterious feud. When the police arrive, they discover two wounded girls. The third girl is dead, killed instantly by a shot to the heart. For the shell-shocked parents, teachers, administrators, and students, healing must begin with answers to the usual questions -- but only if the answers are safe ones, answers that will lead back to one girl and one family and absolve everyone else. For Homicide Sgt. Harold Lenhardt, this case is a mystery with more twists than these grief-stricken suburbanites are willing to acknowledge -- and the sole lucid survivor, a girl with a teenager's uncanny knack for stonewalling, strikes him as being less than honest. What is she concealing? Is she trying to protect herself or someone else? Even the simplest secrets can kill -- and kill again if no one is willing to confront them.

Laura Lippman (Author), Linda Emond (Narrator)

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The Sugar House

Laura Lippman won the Nero Wolfe Award for this powerful mystery. Former journalist turned P.I. Tess Monaghan thought she knew Baltimore like the back of her hand-but what she doesn't know just might kill her in this grim yet irresistible novel. ". a rare find: a puzzle so finely calibrated that each new disclosure brings revelation and deepening mystery at the same time ." -Kirkus Reviews

Laura Lippman (Author), Barbara Rosenblat (Narrator)

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The Shoeshine Man's Regrets

"Lippman shows herself to be a master of short fiction....read them fast, like a glutton, or slowly to savor each one. Either way, this is a treasure." - Library Journal The Shoeshine Man's Regrets Tess Monaghan and Whitney Talbot witness an altercation between a boorish restaurant patron and a shoeshine man. When it is discovered that the mild-mannered shoeshine man is wanted for a murder that occurred forty years in the past, a friend of Tess's asks her to investigate and the case turns out to be full of surprises. "Lippman fans won't be disappointed with these small treasures." - Kirkus Reviews

Laura Lippman (Author), Francois Battiste, Linda Emond (Narrator)

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The Most Dangerous Thing

Some secrets can't be kept. . . . Years ago, they were all the best of friends. But as time passed and circumstances changed, they grew apart, became adults with families of their own, and began to forget about the past'and the terrible lie they all shared. But now Gordon, the youngest and wildest of the five, has died and the others are thrown together for the first time in years. And then the revelations start. Could their long-ago lie be the reason for their troubles today? Each one of these old friends has to wonder if their secret has been discovered'and if someone within the circle is out to destroy them.

Laura Lippman (Author), Linda Emond (Narrator)

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The Last Place

Laura Lippman has claimed all the major prizes in mystery writing and is a New York Times best-selling author. In this seventh novel from Lippman's acclaimed series, Baltimore investigator Tess Monaghan has her hands full with five murder cases that have gone cold. Each has a domestic violence angle, and the cases also share a disturbing connection-one that points to Tess herself.

Laura Lippman (Author), Barbara Rosenblat (Narrator)

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The Innocents

A story of troubled adults, tormented by a secret they shared as children. STAND BY ME meets THE VIRGIN SUICIDES.'As five we were mighty, the points on a star...Once we five joined, it was never boys against girls...Two of our triangles cut themselves off and ran away together, and we were never whole again. Never.'Years ago, they were the best of friends. But as time passed, they grew apart, became adults with families of their own, and began to forget about the past - and the terrible lies they shared.But now Gordon, the youngest and wildest of the five, has died and the others are thrown together for the first time in years.Could their long-ago lie be the reason for their troubles today? Is it more dangerous to admit to what they'd done or is it the strain of keeping the secret that is beginning to wear down on their souls.Dark, provocative and beautifully written, Laura Lippman's genre defying novel will appeal to fans of Lionel Shriver, Megan Abbott and Kate Atkinson.

Laura Lippman (Author), Linda Emond (Narrator)

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The Girl in the Green Raincoat: A Tess Monaghan Novel

In the third trimester of her pregnancy, Baltimore private investigator Tess Monaghan is under doctor's orders to remain immobile. Bored and restless, reduced to watching the world go by outside her window, she takes small comfort in the mundane events she observes . . . like the young woman in a green raincoat who walks her dog at the same time every day. Then one day the dog is running free and its owner is nowhere to be seen. Certain that something is terribly wrong, and incapable of leaving well enough alone, Tess is determined to get to the bottom of the dog walker's abrupt disappearance, even if she must do so from her own bedroom. But her inquisitiveness is about to fling open a dangerous Pandora's box of past crimes and troubling deaths . . . and she's not only putting her own life in jeopardy but also her unborn child's. Previously serialized in the New York Times, and now published in book form for the very first time, The Girl in the Green Raincoat is a masterful Hitchcockian thriller from one of the very best in the business: multiple award-winner Laura Lippman.

Laura Lippman (Author), Linda Emond (Narrator)

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