From its gripping opening pages…Life Sentences may be the most absorbing, entertaining mystery published in the last year.

–Boston Globe

USA Today calls Laura Lippman, A writing powerhouse, and Life Sentences powerfully confirms it. Past and present, truth and memory collide in this searing novel from a New York Times bestselling author whose novels have won virtually every major prize bestowed for crime fiction–from the Edgar® to the Anthony to the Agatha to the Nero Wolfe Award. As she did in her blockbuster What the Dead Know, Lippman takes a brief hiatus from her popular series character, Baltimore p.i. Tess Monaghan, to tell a riveting story of deceptions and dangerously fragile truths that People magazine says, Succeeds brilliantly.