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“I’d Know You Anywhere” ranks with her very best.” (Associated Press )
Laura Lippman is one of those uncommonly talented authors whose work continues to get better in every book she writes. I’d Know You Anywhere is a riveting psychological suspense novel. (Globe and Mail (Toronto) )
This is a story that grips you not with suspense but with its acute psychological autopsy of a survivor. Lippman’s knack for elucidating the horrors humans can inflict on one another through violence and manipulation — while telling a compelling story —is disarming and fascinating.- (USA Today )
“She’s one of the best novelists around, period.” (Washington Post )
The popular mystery-series author’s latest stand-alone: a terrifying story about a death-row inmate obsessed with the only victim he left alive. (O magazine )
I’d Know You Anywhere is a crime story, but it’s not a whodunit. Rather, it’s an exquisitely sensitive story about the psychological impact of crime on its victims. It’s a story about shame, about anger, about survivor’s guilt. (Fort Worth Star-Telegram )
“Lippman deftly keeps the balls aloft with a strong structure -- a straight-ahead chronology interrupted by surgical flashbacks -- and evocative writing.” (Cleveland Plain Dealer )
“I’d Know You Anywhere” continues Laura Lippman’s extraordinary run of stand-alone novels (alternating with her lighter books about private eye Tess Monaghan). From its unsettling opening to its breathtaking conclusion, “Anywhere” exemplifies Lippman’s strengths: compassion, intense prose and deep empathy for the snares of ambiguous emotions. (Seattle Times )
“With the summer reading season coming to a close, don’t let I’D KNOW YOU ANYWHERE be the one that got away.” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch )
“Lippman’s dedicated fans will find themselves well rewarded with I’D KNOW YOU ANYWHERE, an exceptional novel in every way, which is sure to gain her many new followers.” (San Diego Union-Tribune )
“Ex-journalist Lippman never forgets as she moves from past to present and from perspective to perspective that nothing is more important—or more elusive—than the truth.” (Kirkus )
Laura Lippman is one of those uncommonly talented authors whose work continues to get better in every book she writes. I’d Know You Anywhere is a riveting psychological suspense novel. (Globe and Mail (Toronto) )
This is a story that grips you not with suspense but with its acute psychological autopsy of a survivor. Lippman’s knack for elucidating the horrors humans can inflict on one another through violence and manipulation — while telling a compelling story —is disarming and fascinating.- (USA Today )
“She’s one of the best novelists around, period.” (Washington Post )
The popular mystery-series author’s latest stand-alone: a terrifying story about a death-row inmate obsessed with the only victim he left alive. (O magazine )
I’d Know You Anywhere is a crime story, but it’s not a whodunit. Rather, it’s an exquisitely sensitive story about the psychological impact of crime on its victims. It’s a story about shame, about anger, about survivor’s guilt. (Fort Worth Star-Telegram )
“Lippman deftly keeps the balls aloft with a strong structure -- a straight-ahead chronology interrupted by surgical flashbacks -- and evocative writing.” (Cleveland Plain Dealer )
“I’d Know You Anywhere” continues Laura Lippman’s extraordinary run of stand-alone novels (alternating with her lighter books about private eye Tess Monaghan). From its unsettling opening to its breathtaking conclusion, “Anywhere” exemplifies Lippman’s strengths: compassion, intense prose and deep empathy for the snares of ambiguous emotions. (Seattle Times )
“With the summer reading season coming to a close, don’t let I’D KNOW YOU ANYWHERE be the one that got away.” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch )
“Lippman’s dedicated fans will find themselves well rewarded with I’D KNOW YOU ANYWHERE, an exceptional novel in every way, which is sure to gain her many new followers.” (San Diego Union-Tribune )
“Ex-journalist Lippman never forgets as she moves from past to present and from perspective to perspective that nothing is more important—or more elusive—than the truth.” (Kirkus )
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The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author returns with a new stand-alone novel—a powerful and utterly riveting tale that skillfully moves between past and present to explore the lasting effects of crime on a victim's life....I'd Know You Anywhere
Eliza Benedict cherishes her peaceful, ordinary suburban life with her successful husband and children, thirteen-year-old Iso and eight-year-old Albie. But her tranquillity is shattered when she receives a letter from the last person she ever expects—or wants—to hear from: Walter Bowman. There was your photo, in a magazine. Of course, you are older now. Still, I'd know you anywhere.
In the summer of 1985, when she was fifteen, Eliza was kidnapped by Walter and held hostage for almost six weeks. He had killed at least one girl and Eliza always suspected he had other victims as well. Now on death row in Virginia for the rape and murder of his final victim, Walter seems to be making a heartfelt act of contrition as his execution nears. Though Eliza wants nothing to do with him, she's never forgotten that Walter was most unpredictable when ignored. Desperate to shelter her children from this undisclosed trauma in her past, she cautiously makes contact with Walter. She's always wondered why Walter let her live, and perhaps now he'll tell her—and share the truth about his other victims.
Yet as Walter presses her for more and deeper contact, it becomes clear that he is after something greater than forgiveness. He wants Eliza to remember what really happened that long-ago summer. He wants her to save his life. And Eliza, who has worked hard for her comfortable, cocooned life, will do anything to protect it—even if it means finally facing the events of that horrifying summer and the terrible truth she's kept buried inside.
An edgy, utterly gripping tale of psychological manipulation that will leave readers racing to the final page, I'd Know You Anywhere is a virtuoso performance from acclaimed, award-winning author Laura Lippman that is sure to be her biggest hit yet.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Compelling Psychological Suspense,
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This review is from: I'd Know You Anywhere: A Novel (Hardcover)
Reason for Reading: I've read one of Lippman's series books and it was ok but I love her standalones and read each new one as it comes out.
Eliza Benedict lives a perfectly content suburban mother and housewife life. Her husband has a high paying job in finance which she really doesn't understand and she has two children, a 13yo girl and an 8yo boy. Then one day her past meets up with her present when she receives a letter in her mailbox (no stamp) from the man, who is sitting on death row, who kidnapped and raped her when she was 15yo, holding her hostage for 39 days. Walter was prosecuted for the murders of the two girls who came before and after her. His letters turn into a need to talk to her on the phone, which she eventually agrees to and then he wants to talk to her in person. He will be executed in two weeks. Walter is believed to be the perpetrator in several unsolved rape/murder cases and missing persons cases. Eliza wonders if she can somehow be the one to finally get his full confession from him. But Walter, who once had her so cowered and controlled she never tried to escape from him, may have ulterior motives and purposes to wanting to get close to her again. This story is a bit different than others I've read by Lippman. It really isn't a mystery in the sense that a crime is being solved but more a "tale of psychological manipulation" as Eliza finds herself going back over that time of her life that she had tidily shelved away. The story switches back and forth from the present as she deals with the unwanted but compelling attentions of Walter to the past as we see the whole kidnapping play out from the beginning until her eventual rescue. A compelling read that I highly enjoyed. Characterization and plot are both high factors in the telling of this story and I was glued to the pages. It's not exactly a fast-paced story but it is evenly paced, moving forward continually at a steady pace. The book also deals with the issue of the death penalty and the author has done so, very well. As she states in her Author's Note "this is a novel, not a polemic", some other authors (coughKathy Reichscough) could do well to note how to not let their novels turn into a personal soapbox. Ms. Lippman's personal view on the topic is not necessarily evident, as she has strong characters on all sides: for, against and confused. The character with the strongest view is against, but she is portrayed as somewhat of a crackpot yet at times sympathetic. All the viewpoints can be seen from different angles even by the other characters. Well done. Another Lippman winner in my book.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Picture a placid pond...,
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This review is from: I'd Know You Anywhere: A Novel (Hardcover)
and think about throwing a rock - a large rock - into the pond and seeing how the ripples wave out from the center.
That's what the crime of kidnapping and murder has done to the lives of Elizabeth Lerner and the other victims of a serial killer in the mid-1980's in a small area near Washington, DC. Elizabeth is snatched off a country road as a 15 year old after she witnesses Walter Bowman murder another teenage girl and spends 40 days in the company of her kidnapper. They roam a three-state area, posing as a brother and sister, with Bowman controlling every move made by Elizabeth. They are finally stopped after Bowman has kidnapped and murdered another teenager, Holly Tackett. Bowman is convicted of kidnapping and rapping Elizabeth and given a sentence of life imprisonment, but is then tried for the murder of Holly Tackett. Since that murder happened in Virginia, a state which has the death penalty, Bowman is sentenced to death. Elizabeth returns to her family, who move to a different area in Maryland and she resumes her teenage life. She changes her name to Eliza and goes on with her life, drifting through college and into a good marriage with Peter Benedict. As Eliza Benedict, she has two children and a happy, if placid, life as wife and mother. But if one of the ripple of the stone is Elizabeth's life after the crime, the other ripples are the lives of Walter Bowman, now confined to prison in Virginia awaiting his death by lethal injection, and Holly Tackett's grieving family. Nearly 25 years pass from the crimes of 1985 and by 2008 Bowman has reached the end of his legal appeals and his date with death approaches. He has made a friend from his jail cell - an anti-death penalty advocate, Barbara LaFortuny - and they come up with the idea of somehow contacting Elizabeth - now Eliza - and trying to get her to intervene in the death sentence. They do find her and promise to tell her about the other crimes Bowman has committed but never confessed to. Lippman, a very good writer, has written a nuanced story of a crime and the repercussions - the "ripples" - that have been created. Her characters, Elizabeth and her family, both birth and married, and the other victims and hangers-on, as well as Walter Bowman, are well-formed. The only reason I'm giving the book 4 stars instead of 5 is the curious leaving out of the story the reactions of Elizabeth's family during the days she was missing and presumed dead. It's a hole in the plot, I think, that could have been covered in a chapter. Anyway, Lippman's book is very good reading. She's a pro and generally the book is excellent reading.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
AN ABSORBING STORY OF CAPTIVE AND CAPTOR,
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This review is from: I'd Know You Anywhere: A Novel (Hardcover)
Prepare to be mesmerized, totally enthralled, and left with your mind questioning the meaning of true justice. Laura Lippman, author of the acclaimed Tess Monaghan series and last year's best selling Life Sentences, shows her mettle as a writer of intense, character driven, psychological dramas with the superb I'D KNOW YOU ANYWHERE. This is a story that will linger with you long after you've read the last page or heard the last word. Eliza Benedict is a seemingly unflappable mother of two living in suburban Maryland with her husband, Peter, and two children. The eldest is Isobel who has chosen to be called 'Iso,' although her father thinks it should be 'Izzo' or people will see it as short for 'isotope.' She's a difficult teenager seeming to dislike everything since the family's return to America after six years in England. The Benedict son, 8-year-old Albie, is an affable child often plagued by nightmares. All seems relatively normal in the household until the day a letter arrives ' a 'real letter' as Iso calls it addressed to 'Elizabeth,' the name she used 'before' as Eliza now terms it. The 'before' refers to before she was kidnapped the summer she was 15 by Walter Bowman, held captive for almost six weeks and then raped before miraculously finding herself free. The letter is from Bowman who is now on Death Row for killing another young girl and suspected of killing more. He wants to talk to Elizabeth as he still calls her. Eliza has successfully managed to compartmentalize what happened to her that long ago summer. Peter knows about most of it, and the children know nothing. She believed that she had kept herself hidden from anyone connected with that event ' from the unscrupulous writer who had penned a tacky version of her time with Bowman, from the press who might like to revive the story now that Bowman's execution date is nearing, and from Bowman himself. She fears not only for herself but for her family, yet she also finds that she unable to totally escape from the control Bowman once held over her. Why did he let her live while the other girls died? Did she owe him anything? Does she owe a debt to the families of the other victims? Eliza answers his letter hoping that will be the end of it, but he asks for a phone call. He knows what strings to pull just as she recognizes the terrifying sociopath he is and the man he believes himself to be. Alternating between past and present Lippman's story is scrupulously plotted as she details the affect the kidnappings have had not only on the victims and their families, but on others as well. These characters are clearly drawn, not only physically but psychologically as the story builds to a surprising denouement. Highly recommended. - Gail Cooke
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