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Wilde Lake

Wilde Lake

by Laura Lippman

Trials (Homicide)FictionGovernment attorneysWomen lawyersNew York Times reviewed
4.0
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About this book

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?

Themes & subjects

Trials (Homicide)FictionGovernment attorneysWomen lawyersNew York Times reviewedFiction, thrillers, suspense

Setting

Howard County (Md.)

About the author

Laura Lippman
Laura Lippman

1959

Laura Lippman (born January 31, 1959) is an American journalist and author of over 20 detective fiction novels.[1] Her novels have won multiple awards, including an Agatha Award, seven Anthony Awards, two Barry Awards, an Edgar Award, a Gumshoe Award, a Macavity Award, a Nero Award, two Shamus Awards, and two Strand Critics Award. -Wikipedia

Author

Laura Lippman

Pages

384

Read time

≈ 10h

Editions

7

Language

English

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

ISBN

9780062083470

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