I'd Know You Anywhere: A Novel

by Laura Lippman Narrated by Linda Emond

Overview

“Laura Lippman is among the select group of novelists who have invigorated the crime fiction arena with smart, innovative, and exciting work.”
-George Pelecanos

“Lippman's taut, mesmerizing, and exceptionally smart drama of predator and prey is at once unusually sensitive and utterly compelling.
-Booklist

Laura Lippman, New York Times bestselling author of What the Dead Know, Life Sentences, and the acclaimed Tess Monaghan p.i. series, delivers a stunning stand-alone novel that explores the lasting effects on lives touched by crime. With I'd Know You Anywhere, Lippman-master of mystery and psychological suspense, winner of every major literary prize given for crime fiction, including the Edgar®, Agatha, and Nero Wolfe Awards-tells a gripping and richly textured tale of a young woman whose life dangerously entwines once again with a man on Death Row who had kidnapped her when she was a teenager. This is superior mystery writing in the vein of Kate Atkinson.

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Editorial Reviews

If Washington, D.C. housewife Eliza Benedict sometimes seems preoccupied, it's easy to imagine why: As a teenager a quarter century ago, she was kidnapped by a serial rapist and murderer. That maniac is now sitting on death row and he is making one last macabre effort to reach out to her. Can she ignore it? And what will happen to her children if she does? Predator and prey; an intense mystery with which every parent can identify.

From the Publisher

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 Reviews

“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

“Lippman deftly keeps the balls aloft with a strong structure — a straight-ahead chronology interrupted by surgical flashbacks — and evocative writing.” — Cleveland Plain Dealer

“She’s one of the best novelists around, period.” — Washington Post

“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

“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

“I’d Know You Anywhere” ranks with her very best.” — Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers

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

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

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

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)

USA Today

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.-

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

With the summer reading season coming to a close, don’t let I’D KNOW YOU ANYWHERE be the one that got away.

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

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.

Lisa Ko

I’d Know You Anywhere” ranks with her very best.

O magazine

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.

Seattle Times

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.

San Diego Union-Tribune

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.

Washington Post

She’s one of the best novelists around, period.

Cleveland Plain Dealer

Lippman deftly keeps the balls aloft with a strong structure — a straight-ahead chronology interrupted by surgical flashbacks — and evocative writing.

Globe and Mail (Toronto)

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.

Washington Post

She’s one of the best novelists around, period.

USA Today

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.-

Associated Press Staff

I’d Know You Anywhere” ranks with her very best.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940173807779
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	08/17/2010
Edition description:	Unabridged

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