As Lu prepares for the trial, the case
what really happened back then with
dredges up painful memories, remind-
her brother and his friends. Readers
ing her small but tight-knit family of
can feel the doubt, fear, and an unease
the night when her brother, AJ, saved
about everything. Laura Lipman has
his best friend at the cost of another
beautifully written this story in a way
man’s life. Only eighteen, AJ was
that has readers experiencing every
cleared by a grand jury. Now, Lu won-
moment through the eyes and ears of
ders if the events of 1980 happened as
the main character. Everything the
she remembers them. What details
characters feels, thinks, or experiences
might have been withheld from her
so can the readers. Wilde Lake is intri-
when she was a child?
guing from page one and keep readers
sucked in until the last page. This was
Synopsis:
The New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed stand-alone After
I’m Gone, I’d Know You Anywhere, and What the Dead Know,
challenges our notions of memory, loyalty, responsibility, and justice in this
evocative and psychologically complex
story about a long-ago death that still
haunts a family.
The more she learns about the case, the the very first novel that I have read by
more questions arise. What does it
Laura Lipman. I was happy that I had a
mean to be a man or woman of one’s
chance to read this new title. A political
times? Why do we ask our heroes of
crime thriller that has enough suspense
the past to conform to the present’s
to keep readers interested. The story
standards? Is that fair? Is it right? Pro- fluctuates back and forth from the
pelled into the past, she discovers that
characters past to the present. I love a
the legal system, the bedrock of her
good story that goes after secrets and
entire life, does not have all the an-
digs up the truth. Family is important
swers. Lu realizes that even if she could especially to Lu. She takes care of her
learn the whole truth, she probably
father and she knows there more to the
wouldn’t want to.
story then what her older brother has
told everyone. Yet everything he says is
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.
Rating: 5 star s
the truth...there's just things he hasn't
said...they make Lu wonder about the
Review:
past and it's what, who's and whys.
Wild Lake is nothing like what readers
Wild Lake by Laura Lipman is one riv-
think it is, it's much more then what
eting novel. Readers everywhere will
the title says. Laura Lipman definitely
love reading this book. A young girl
knows how to captivate her audience
knew something had happened...but
and keep them reading all night long. I
didn't know exactly what...now, as a
enjoyed reading this new thriller, and I
grown adult and working on a new case recommend it to readers everywhere.
as a state prosecutor, she finds herself
whirling backward trying to figure out