I heard about Wilde Lake from the author's mouth--literally. Lippman spoke about her book at the Junior League book and author event I attended back in May. She had a remarkable way of speaking about her book, giving only the slightest hints at actions and events, enticing us all into reading the book and finding out what really happened all those years ago on Wilde Lake. Well...I am certainly not going to spoil it for you here, but I will give you some inside information about the book so you can decide if it's worth your time to read the book.
Cutting to the chase, Wilde Lake is a suspenseful, murder mystery. I don't typically read this genre, but Lippman sells her book well and I was anxious to read it. It's told by Lu, Luisa Brant, the newly elected state's attorney of Howard County, Maryland. She tells the story in alternating chapters: one chapter is her present day story and the next is a chapter detailing her memories from the past. When you combine events of the past with events of the present, you get the full story of what happened one night on Wilde Lake involving her bother, his friends, and a girl. It takes a current murder case that Lu is working on for her to truly understand events that took place 30 years before.
It's a cleverly told story but it's hard to read at times. Or at least it was for me. There's a reason I don't typically read these sorts of books--I don't like to read about what I can see in brutal detail on the news each night. However, this was a superbly written story so I don't blame Lippman for gory details.
If you are fans of Patricia Cornwell, or even John Grisham, you'd like this one. Come to think of it, I should save it for my in-laws. They love these sorts of books!
Happy reading, everyone!
-Dodie
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