![]() ![]() Love the way Lippman both draws on and updates noir tropes in this novel. ![]() Cain's masterpieces The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, and Mildred Pierce, Sunburn is a tantalizing modern noir from the incomparable Laura Lippman. Is their love strong enough to withstand the truth, or will it ultimately destroy them? ![]() Was it an accident or part of a plan? By now Adam and Polly are so ensnared in each other's lives and lies that neither one knows how to get away - or even if they want to. Still, each holds something back from the other - dangerous, even lethal secrets. Over the course of a punishing summer, Polly and Adam abandon themselves to a steamy, inexorable affair. ![]() Yet she stays, and he stays - drawn to this mysterious redhead whose quiet stillness both unnerves and excites him. They meet at a local tavern in the small town of Belleville, Delaware. But instead of rules, this game has dark secrets, forbidden desires, inevitable betrayals - and cold-blooded murder. New York Times best-selling author Laura Lippman returns with a superb novel of psychological suspense about a pair of lovers with the best intentions and the worst luck: two people locked in a passionate yet uncompromising game of cat and mouse. ![]()
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