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    Hardly Knew Her
    Hardly Knew Her
    Hardly Knew Her
    Audiobook9 hours

    Hardly Knew Her

    Written by Laura Lippman

    Narrated by Linda Emond and Francois Battiste

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    “Lippman is a writing powerhouse.”

    —USA Today

     

    New York Times bestselling author and winner of every major prize awarded for crime fiction—including the Edgar®, Anthony, Shamus, Agatha, and Nero Wolfe Awards—Laura Lippman brilliantly demonstrates her astonishing agility as a short story writer with Hardly Knew Her. A sterling collection of sixteen suspenseful short fictions and novellas—most set in and around her beloved Baltimore and several featuring her popular series character private investigator Tess Monaghan—Hardly Knew Her was called, “Riveting…One of the best collections released in some time” by the Boston Globe. The Seattle Times says, “something in the short-story form brings out the wicked in Laura Lippman,” and this exceptional collection is indisputable proof that Lippman is without peer as she walks boldly on the dark and dangerous side.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateOct 7, 2008
    ISBN9780061710094
    Author

    Laura Lippman

    Since Laura Lippman’s debut, she has been recognized as a distinctive voice in mystery fiction and named one of the “essential” crime writers of the last 100 years. Stephen King called her “special, even extraordinary,” and Gillian Flynn wrote, “She is simply a brilliant novelist.” Her books have won most of the major awards in her field and been translated into more than twenty-five languages. She lives in Baltimore and New Orleans with her teenager.

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    • 4/5
      If Laura Lippman continues to publish short story collections like this one I?m going to have to stop saying that I really don?t like short stories. These were, with the exception of maybe two that I felt were just OK, absolutely great, well-plotted and entertaining stories. My favorite was One True Love which I wished was longer (like novel size) because I loved the character and wanted to read more about her. I was, therefore, pleasantly surprised to get to the final novella which I enjoyed immensely!
    • 4/5
      A wonderful, engaging, and thrilling book of short stories that all have delightful twists in their endings and center around a cast of women you definitely shouldn't take for granted. I'd never read a Tess Monoghan novel before reading this, which I thought would hurt me as two of the stories center around Tess, but my lack of knowledge didn't detract from the enjoyment; if anything, it has reminded me of how much I want to start reading the Monoghan PI mystery series.
    • 4/5
      The stories in this collection all draw a lot of their vitality from their nicely constructed protagonists, none of whom are completely innocent and many of whom are quite despicable. The author has a knack of devising endings which ought to feel more far-fetched than they do, in the best tradition of the mystery. I hadn't read anything else by this author but plan to look for her novels some time in the future.
    • 4/5
      It was a fast-paced reading. The book comprised 17 short stories, whereupon two are related to each other. Each story is gripping from the start up to the very last full stop. They make so addictive that one isn't able to stop reading. In each story women get the upper hand and there is a also a strong devilish thinking. It was an enjoyable reading and I can strongly recommend this book.
    • 5/5
      This short story collection could have been subtitled “Women Who Kill”, because that is essentially what most of the stories revolve around. It’s a very strong collection, with only a few duds. Strangely, one of those duds was a Tess Monaghan story (Lippman’s most well-known character).It’s difficult to narrow down exactly which stories were my favorites. The first story, The Crack Cocaine Diet, is fabulous just for its voice. I really enjoyed The Accidental Detective, a newspaper-style piece on Tess Monaghan that gives nice insight into the character, even if you haven’t read any books in that series. Easy as A-B-C was also quite entertaining — one of the few in the collection from a male point of view. And I thought the novella, Scratch a Woman, was very good.Lippman is an excellent weaver of stories. Even when you think you know where a story is going, she can surprise you. If you enjoy crime fiction or short story collections, I think this is a must-read.
    • 5/5
      Terrific collection of short stories. Most are crime stories, and most have surprising perpetrators or extremely unusual modus operandi. Laura Lippman comes up with some pretty sick stuff, and I love it!
    • 4/5
      If Laura Lippman continues to publish short story collections like this one I’m going to have to stop saying that I really don’t like short stories. These were, with the exception of maybe two that I felt were just OK, absolutely great, well-plotted and entertaining stories. My favorite was One True Love which I wished was longer (like novel size) because I loved the character and wanted to read more about her. I was, therefore, pleasantly surprised to get to the final novella which I enjoyed immensely!