By a Spider's Thread - Hardcover

Laura Lippman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0752859870 ISBN 13: 9780752859873

Publisher: Orion, 2004

Synopsis

...De kofferbak was groter dan Isaäk had verwacht, en hij was ook niet zo bang als hij had gedacht. Het was erg jammer dat het zo’n oude auto was. Een nieuwere, zoals die van zijn vader, zou misschien een lampje hebben, of zelfs een manier om de klep van binnenuit open te maken...

Uit ervaring weet privé-detective Tess Monaghan dat haar klanten niet zelden oneerlijk of onbetrouwbaar zijn. Wanneer modelvader Mark Rubin haar hulp inschakelt bij de plotselinge verdwijning van zijn vrouw Natalie en hun drie jonge kinderen komt Tess dan ook voor een dilemma te staan.

Moet ze Rubin op zijn woord geloven wanneer hij haar vertelt dat hun leven op alle vlakken perfect en smetteloos was? Waarom verliet Natalie dan van het ene op het andere moment haar prachtige huis en vertrouwde omgeving?

Tess komt erachter dat Natalie kriskras het land doorreist met een onbekende en gewelddadige man. Een nieuw mysterie vraagt om haar eigenzinnige aanpak...

About this title

From the Back Cover

The winner of every major literary award in crime fiction, Laura Lippman brings back her complex and vulnerably human Baltimore P.I., Tess Monaghan, in a tense, expertly spun tale of a family torn asunder by forces it can barely comprehend.

Mark Rubin's family is missing -- and the police can't do a thing because all the evidence indicates that his wife left willingly. So the successful furrier turns to Tess Monaghan, hoping she can help him find his wife and three children. Tess doesn't know quite what to make of Rubin, a wealthy Orthodox Jew who refuses to shake her hand and doles out vitally important information in grudging dribs and drabs. According to her client, he and his beautiful wife, Natalie, had a flawless, happy marriage. Yet one day, without any warning or explanation, Natalie gathered up their children and vanished.

Tapping into a network of fellow investigators spread across the country, Tess is soon able to locate the runaway wife and her stolen progeny, moving furtively from state to state, town to town. But the Rubins are not alone. A man is traveling with them, a stranger described by witnesses as "handsome" and "charming" but otherwise unremarkable to these casual observers, who have no way of sensing the fury beneath his smooth surface.

The motive behind Natalie's reckless flight lies somewhere in the gap between what Mark Rubin will not say and what he refuses to believe. An intricate web of betrayal and vengeance is already beginning to unravel, as memory begets rage and rage leads to desperation -- and murder. And suddenly much more than one man's future happiness and stubborn pride are in peril; the lives of three innocent children are dangling by the slenderest of threads.

About the Author

Laura Lippman is a freelance journalist and lives in Baltimore. Her previous novels are: BALTIMORE BLUES; (nominated for the Shamus Award); CHARM CITY (winner of the Edgar and Shamus Awards); BUTCHER'S HILL (winner of the Anthony and Agatha Awards); IN BIG TROUBLE (winner of the Anthony and Shamus Awards);THE SUGAR HOUSE (winner of the Nero Wolfe Award), IN A STRANGE CITY, THE LAST PLACE and EVERY SECRET THING

Edition details

• Publisher: Orion
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0752859870
• ISBN 13: 9780752859873
• Binding: Hardcover