Every Secret Thing, (Paperback)

from sscarllet

I really enjoyed this book. Lippman's writing is engrossing from the first word making this book difficult to put down. I did sort of guess the ending, but it is sort of obvious. What I didn't see were the small details, and that's what really makes this book.I'm really hoping that Lippman has a ...

from nbmars

Every Secret Thing is a standalone mystery that is not part of the Tess Monaghan detective series. This dark story from Lippman was inspired by a real crime in which two ten-year-old boys killed a three-year-old boy. In Every Secret Thing, the perpetrators are two eleven-year-old lower class whit...

from slpenney07

Summary: Two eleven year old girls are convicted after they kidnap the baby girl of a prominent public official. Seven years later, they are released and babies start disappearing again. The Take-Away: I really thought that this would be tough to read, but the violence stayed off the pages. It wa...

from Aeroette

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 th...

from allison.sivak

This was better-written than I expected a mass-market paperback to be. And it had a good twist at the end. However, I disliked the "born bad" explanation for the murder; that is just as "easy" and stereotypical as blaming the girl from the tough home.