New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman is hailed as a distinctive voice in mystery fiction. Best known for writing a series of novels set in Baltimore and featuring reporter-turned-private investigator Tess Monaghan, Lippmanās books have won most of the significant honors in her field, including the Agatha, Anthony, and Edgar Allan Poe Award. In Dream Girl: A Novel (William Morrow), writer Gerry Andersen, injured in a freak fall, is confined to a hospital bed in his high-rise apartment and dependent on two women he barely knows: his incurious young assistant and a dull, slow-witted night nurse. Then late one night the phone rings ā and the caller claims to be the ārealā Aubrey, the title character from Andersenās most successful novel, Dream Girl. But there is no ārealā Aubrey; sheās a figment of his imagination. Isolated from the world, drowsy from medication, Andersen slips between reality and a dreamlike state in which his past haunts him ā and now, here is Aubrey, threatening to visit him and suggesting that he owes her something. The Washington Post noted that āSocially conscious (the #MeToo movement makes a decisive entrance into the plot) and packed with humor, ghosts and narrative turn of the screw, Lippmanās Dream Girl is indeed a dream of a novel for suspense lovers and fans of literary satire alike.ā
May 24, 2023
Laura Lippman
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New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman is hailed as a distinctive voice in mystery fiction. Best known for writing a series of novels