City of Belmont - Ruth Faulkner Public Library

Hush hush, Laura Lippman

Adult

Hush hush

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Laura Lippman

Tess Monaghan, 12

On a searing August day, Melisandre Harris Dawes committed the unthinkable: she left her two-month-old daughter locked in a car. Found not guilty of her death by reason of criminal insanity, Melisandre left the country, her husband and her two surviving children, determined to start over. Ten years later, she returns to Baltimore to meet with her estranged teenage daughters... Now that she's a mother herself, Tess Monaghan wants nothing to do with a woman crazy enough to have killed her own child; but she and her new partner, retired Baltimore P.D. homicide detective Sandy Sanchez, have been asked to assess her security needs. As Tess's doubts about Melisandre grow, she realizes that she's not the only one under scrutiny, as someone seems to be following Tess herself, leaving disturbing notes wherever she goes..