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Laura Lippman writes delightful mysteries set in Baltimore with a winning character, Tess Monaghan. Lippman has branched out with stand alone novels of great depth and character. Life Sentences is her latest.
Author Cassandra Fallows has achieved remarkable success by baring her life on the page. Her two widely popular memoirs continue to sell briskly, however, her new fiction offering has fallen flat. Seeking another runaway subject, Cassandra believes she may have found the story that will enable her triumphant return to nonfiction.
When Cassandra was a girl, growing up in a racially diverse middle-class neighborhood in Baltimore, her best friends were all black. One of the girls, a shy, quiet, unobtrusive child named Calliope Jenkins - who, years later, would be accused of killing her infant son, hung in the edge of the group of girls. For seven years, Calliope refused to speak and the court was finally forced to let her go. Cassandra believes this still unsolved real-life mystery, largely unknown outside Baltimore, could be her next bestseller.
As Cassandra digs deeply into the mystery, she discovers disturbing truths about herself, her family and her friends, shaking to the very core all that she believed true.
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