Book description
A woman causes an accident on the Baltimore Beltway, flees the scene
and is later picked up wandering on the shoulder of the Interstate. The
accident occurs just a mile from the former home of the Bethany family,
Dave and Miriam and their daughters Sunny and Heather. Thirty years
before, twelve-year-old Heather persuaded her older sister Sunny to let
her tag along on a visit to the mall. Neither of the girls has been seen
since. Now, the woman on the Beltway claims to be Heather Bethany. Today
she has a different name; a different identity. What has prompted this
woman to announce her true - if it is true - identity at this moment?
Laura Lippman deftly unpeels the layers of Heather's past: revealing her
parents, sister, friends, teachers, and the detective who handled the
case, until the truth about what happened to Heather and Sunny on that
long ago afternoon is finally uncovered. Before becoming a full time
novelist, Laura Lippman was a newspaper reporter for 20 years, including
12 years at the BALTIMORE SUN. She lives in Baltimore with her partner,
the writer David Simon.
