If you like murder mysteries because they leave you guessing right up until the final chapter, you'll probably enjoy What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman. There are no action scenes, no gory gunfights, or gratuitous sex -- although there are references to some of these. A woman stopped for fleeing the scene of a traffic accident offers to clear up a 30 year old case of two missing teenagers. She claims to be one of the missing girls. However, she is anything but cooperative or straightforward. As the investigators (and we the readers) try to decide whether she is lying or telling the truth, the actual events are revealed little by little. Even when she confides in the reader that she is lying, you might think she's lying about lying.
But it all comes together in the end in a nice tight package that leaves almost everybody better off because the woman was stopped and did talk.
Good book as is but would be horrible if abridged.
I finished reading the book a few days ago. Very enjoyable, lots of twists. I figured out early on who the woman was, but the way it was resolved kept me guessing the whole time. Thanks for the recommendation!
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