Every Secret Thing: A Novel

Every Secret Thing: A Novel

From critically acclaimed, multiple-award winner Laura Lippman comes a riveting story of love and murder, guilt and innocence. Two little girls banished from a neighborhood birthday party find an abandoned stroller with an infant inside on an unfamiliar Baltimore street. What happens next is shocking and terrible, causing the irreparable devastation of three separate families. Seven years later, Alice Manning and Ronnie Fuller, now eighteen, are released from “kid prison” to begin their lives over again. But the secrets swirling around the original crime continue to haunt the parents, the lawyers, the police, and all the adults in Alice and Ronnie’s lives. And now another child has disappeared, under freakishly similar circumstances. “Laura Lippman can speak in any voice....This may be the best book I’ve read all year.” - Charlotte News & Observer “...a chilling study of mothers, daughters, love, and murder....Lucid, tight, and compelling.” - Kirkus Reviews on Every Secret Thing “Mesmerizing. . . . A spine-tingler that resonates with torn-from-the-headlines immediacy.” - Washington Post “Every Secret Thing will stay with you for a long time.” - Chicago Sun-Times “Not just a mystery but a tragedy...a grimly satisfying read that illumines one of our deepest fears as a modern society.” - Baltimore Sun “This is a standout. And the story of children in jeopardy and innocence lost is sadly all too timely.” - Orlando Sentinel From critically acclaimed, multiple-award winner Laura Lippman comes a riveting story of love and murder, guilt and innocence Two little girls banished from a neighborhood birthday party find an abandoned stroller with an infant inside on an unfamiliar Baltimore street. What happens next is shocking and terrible, causing the irreparable devastation of three separate families. Seven years later, Alice Manning and Ronnie Fuller, now eighteen, are released from “kid prison” to begin their lives over again. But the secrets swirling around the original crime continue to haunt the parents, the lawyers, the police, and all the adults in Alice and Ronnie’s lives. And now another child has disappeared, under freakishly similar circumstances. Since Laura Lippman’s debut, she has been recognized as a distinctive voice in mystery fiction and named one of the “essential” crime writers of the last 100 years. Stephen King called her “special, even extraordinary,” and Gillian Flynn wrote, “She is simply a brilliant novelist.” Her books have won most of the major awards in her field and been translated into more than twenty-five languages. She lives in Baltimore and New Orleans with her teenager.