Hush Hush A Tess Monaghan Novel

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A Maxim Jakubowski selected title.

Laura Lippman has, for a couple of decades, been one of the most consistent and rewarding crime writers around, garnering acclaim but somehow never getting fully into the headlight lesser talents have occupied. An ex-journalist as is her recurring heroine Baltimore-based Tess Monaghan, her view of the world is acute but humane and the cases she becomes involved in remain close to the reader's reality.

Tess is now a mother and returns, reluctantly, to the investigative fray, follolwing a lengthy interruption and is confronted by the case of a woman who last lost two of her own children to fate following a tragedy in which a third died. Navigating a maelstrom of feelings and emotions, Tess has to face difficult questions and situations as she gets to grips with the case and mines sensitive psychological depths with pinpoint generosity and acuity. A welcome back to a favourite character after several years of stand alone titles.

Reviewed by Maxim Jakubowski
Maxim Jakubowski is a London-based novelist and editor.
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About Hush Hush A Tess Monaghan Novel

No one is quite who he or she seems. Hush Hush is the story of Melisandre - rich, beautiful, possibly insane - who has to live with the knowledge of a devastating event in her past. She has not seen her two daughters, now aged fifteen and seventeen, in the ten years since the notorious family tragedy.

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