Private Detective Tess Monaghan is back in Laura Lippman's new novel, Hush Hush and is hired to assess a security threat to one of the most notorious women in Baltimore. Melisandre Harris Dawes is the former socialite who killed her baby daughter on a hot summer day. She was found "Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity" and disappeared from the public eye for nearly a decade. Now she is back and working with a documentary filmmaker to tell her story, but she fears that people might be out to get her. When her personal trainer is poisoned Tess starts to realize that Melisandre's fear is based in reality. Tess and her new partner start digging into the past to find who might want Melisandre dead. Is it her ex-husband or his new wife? What about the two teen daughters she left behind when they needed her the most? Will Tess find the threat before somebody else dies?
Hush Hush was one of those mystery novels that seem almost comforting to me. Laura Lippman doesn't really fall in the category of "Cozy Mystery" but Tess Monaghan is a familiar character that I have gotten to "know". Tess and Crow are *this* close to being married and Carla Scarlet is a precocious three year old that keeps both of them on their toes. Melisandre is a less than likable character. Almost from her first introduction she rubbed me the wrong way, but I wasn't convinced that she deserved to be in danger. As always, Tess is on top of things as she tries to get to the bottom of things. But when she starts receiving stalker-type notes I thought I had figured out who was behind them, but I was way wrong.
Bottom line - Hush Hush was a great mystery with a lot of different little intricacies that leave you continually guessing. Definitely wort the read if you are in the mood for a good mystery.
Details:
- Hush Hush by Laura Lippman
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- Pages: 320
- Publisher: HarperCollins
- Publication Date: 2/24/2015
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