A Tess Monaghan investigation, the eighth so lots to catch up on if you’re new to this lady. They are thoughtful American crime tales set in Baltimore, atmospheric and nicely compulsive, but it’s the human drama that really stands out here. She’s good.
Comparison: Meg Gardiner, Mary Higgins Clark, Sue Grafton.
Similar this month: Robert Goddard, Harlan Coben.
| Primary Genre | Crime and Mystery |
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After her brilliant stand-alone thriller EVERY SECRET THING, Lippman returns to her series character, PI Tess Monaghan, and her home town of Baltimore.
Natalie Rubin, middle-class Jewish wife and mother, has vanished. Worse, she has taken her three children with her. Her husband, Mark, is devastated. He loves her; and he thought she was happy. So he approaches Tess to trace her.
At first Tess is wary. She doesn't like getting involved in domestic disputes, and Mark's love for his wife seems to contain a disturbing desire to control her. Did he drive her away? Did he perhaps kill her? But as Tess pursues her quest for Natalie, she discovers a woman with a mysterious past, a man whose values will challenge her own, and a family that knows how to keep its secrets ...
BY A SPIDER'S THREAD is part tense thriller and part all-too-human drama about what families do to each other.
By a Spider's Thread features in the following genres: Crime and Mystery, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, Recommendations
By a Spider's Thread is available in Ebook, Paperback
By a Spider's Thread was written by Laura Lippman and published by Orion Publishing Co
By a Spider's Thread has 416 pages
