That was an unexpected find in Laura Lippman's "What the Dead Know."
Laura Lippman based her novel on the actual disappearance of two girls from a shopping mall in Baltimore in the 1970s. No one ever solved that mystery, but in this suspense novel, Lippman takes us in another, entirely plausible, direction.
Heather and Sunny are sisters who travel by bus to a local mall on the Saturday before Easter. That was the last time anyone saw or heard from them. For the next 25 years, there is no resolution to their story, until a woman is involved in a minor traffic accident in Baltimore and claims that she is one of the missing sisters.
Moving between past and present, from Baltimore to southern York County, the novel moves quickly toward a satisfying conclusion. Lippman hits all the right buttons -- disbelief,
grief, failure of the "system" -- that the reader becomes thoroughly engrossed in finding out just who this mystery woman is.
A good read.
After I read this post, I requested the book from the library. My husband said I was crazy because I am reading it so fast. I can't put it down. Thanks for the suggestion.