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To the Power of Three

"Powerful....A gripping tale that is a mystery only in the same sense as To Kill a Mockingbird was....Brilliant, insightful, moving."

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—Chicago Sun-Times

There are excellent reasons why New York Timesbestselling author Laura Lippman has won the Edgar(r), Agatha, Anthony, Nero Wolfe, and every other major award the mystery genre has to offer. To the Power of Threeis just one of those reasons. Lippman's brilliant and disturbing tale of three inseparable high school girlfriends in an affluent Baltimore suburb who share dark secrets literally until death, To the Power of Threeis this "writing powerhouse" (USA Today), who has "exploded the boundaries of the mystery genre to become one of the most significant social realists of our time" (Madison Smartt Bell) operating at the very top of her game. Not merely crime fiction, but fiction that gets to the deep psychological, emotional, and human roots of a terrible crime, Lippman's novel is one that will not be easily forgotten—a must read for fans of Kate Atkinson, Tana French, Jodi Picoult, and Harlan Coben

Audience
adultyoung adult
Length
long · 448 pages

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