HUSH HUSH

Bestseller Laura Lippman's latest installment in the Tess Monaghan series weaves an exploration of the joys and frustrations of motherhood with a clever and engaging mystery.

On a hot summer day beautiful and wealthy and possibly insane Melisandre Dawes left her baby locked in a car, while she sat nearby. Found not guilty by reason of criminal insanity, Melisandre left the country, leaving her two older daughters and husband behind. Ten years later she returns, eager to resume a relationship with her children. But every member of the family has different memories of what happened ten years before, and even the daughters, young girls at the time of their sister's death, have guilty secrets. When there are threats made against Melisandre's life, Tess Monaghan is called in to protect her. Tess, now a mother herself, feels no sympathy for Melisandre. When Melisandre is accused of another death, Tess finds herself even more alienated from her client, until she too finds she needs protection from a stalker questioning her maternal instincts.