Every Secret Thing

Laura Lippman

NOW A MOTION PICTURE STARRING DAKOTA FANNING AND ELIZABETH BANKS

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SUNBURN AND DREAM GIRL

A riveting story of love and murder, guilt and innocence, adult sins and childhood secrets.

Two little girls banished from a neighbourhood birthday party take a wrong turn down an unfamiliar Baltimore street-and encounter an abandoned stroller with an infant inside. What happens next is shocking and terrible, and three families are irreparably destroyed.

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-all the adults in Alice and Ronnie's lives. And now another child has disappeared, under freakishly similar circumstances. . .

'Perfect. . . on a par with some of our finest authors of psychological suspense, including Ruth Rendell, Denise Mina, and Patricia Highsmith.' 5* reader review

'Quick and exciting read. . . full of suspense!' 5* reader review

'Enigmatic, unpredictable. . . don't plan on getting anything done until you turn the last page of this book. 5* reader review'

Table of contents

• Cover
• LandingPage
• Title Page
• Contents
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• July 17, seven years ago
• Prologue
• PART I: The Usual Daily Accidents
• PART II: The Dogs of Pompeii
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• By the Same Author
• Copyright