Every Secret Thing

Laura Lippman

Oct 2009 · Sold by Harper Collins

About this ebook

Every Secret Thing is a riveting story of love and murder, guilt and innocence, adult sins and childhood darkness.

Two little girls banished from a neighborhood 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 ...

Ratings and reviews

Lippmann is such an excellent storyteller, with a talent for developing original, edge of your seat psychological thrills. i was hooked from the prologue! i would have given this five stars except the ending wasn't as much of a shocking, slap in the face as it could have been. The idea is shocking, it is just that if main components and characters had been fleshed out slightly differently it would have had a greater impact. But all in all a great read that I'd recommend!

You can read the last 50 pages and be fine. The book was filled with a lot if irrelevant chapters

This author has a knack for bringing characters to life however had a hard time of bringing the story full circle

About the author

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.