By A Spider's Thread - Softcover

Lippman, Laura

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0752864955 ISBN 13: 9780752864952

Publisher: Orion, 2005

Synopsis

Natalie Rubin, middle-class Jewish wife and mother, has vanished. Worse, she has taken her three children - nine year old Isaac and boy/girl twins of five - with her. Her husband Mark is devastated. He loves her, he thought she was happy. He approaches Tess to trace her. At first Tess is wary. She doesn't like getting involved in domestic disputes, and Mark's love for his wife seems to contain a strong desire to control her. Did he drive her away? Did he perhaps kill her? But as Tess pursues her quest for Natalie, she discovers a woman whose past were better kept hidden, a man whose values will challenge her own, and a family that knows how to button up its secrets ...A SPIDER'S THREAD is part tense thriller, part all-too-human drama about what families do to each other It confirms Laura Lippman as a storyteller of rare intelligence, insight and power.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Private investigator Tess Monaghan doesn't know quite what to make of her new client, Mark Rubin—a wealthy Orthodox Jew who refuses to shake her hand and doles out vitally important information in grudging dribs and drabs. The successful Baltimore furrier claims he and his beautiful wife had a flawless, happy marriage. Yet one day, without warning, Natalie gathered up their children and vanished—and the police can't do anything because all the evidence indicates she left willingly.

But the deeper Tess digs, the more she suspects that the motive behind Natalie's reckless flight lies somewhere in the gap between what 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 begets desperation . . . and murder. And suddenly 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

About this edition

• Publisher: Orion
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0752864955
• ISBN 13: 9780752864952
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 400