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And When She Was Good
And When She Was Good | Laura Lippman
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In the comfortable suburb where she lives, Heloise is just a mom, the youngish widow with a forgettable job who somehow never misses her son's soccer games or school plays. But in discrete hotel rooms throughout the area, she's the woman of your dreams - if you can afford her hourly fee. For more than a decade, Heloise has believed her unorthodox life to be a safe one; rigidly compartmentalized, maintaining no real friendships and trusting very few people. But now this secret life is under siege. Her once oblivious accountant is asking loaded questions about her business. Her longtime protector is hinting at new, mysterious dangers. Her employees can no longer be trusted. Her ex, the one who doesn't know he's the father of her son, is appealing his life sentence. And, one county over, another so-called 'suburban madam' has been found dead in her car, an apparent suicide... Can Heloise stay alive long enough to remake her life again, and save her son? Can she really expect to leave everything else behind?
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CaitlinR
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I‘m a big Laura Lippman fan, and this 2012 novel is a great read. A twisting mystery with high end prostitution at its center. The characters are interesting and complicated. I found the arc of Helen‘s life, as she became Heloise, entirely believable and I rooted for her success. Unfortunately:

“No one is safe in this world. This best we can do is create an illusion of safety for your children as long as possible” (p. 310)

Crazeedi I like Lippman too, I'll have to look for this 5y
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mrozzz
And When She Was Good | Laura Lippman
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Spent the morning visiting the epic used bookstore, Book Barn, for the first time! Only wandered through 2 of the 4 locations; it was enough for one day.

Picked up a couple $1 Karin Slaughters and the two Laura Lippmans pictured here. #bookhaul

MicheleinPhilly So THAT‘S why you showed restraint at The Strand. 😉 6y
mrozzz LOL @MicheleinPhilly I actually had a gift card for Book Barn. Only spent $2 of my own cash 😉 6y
zzz I 💖 used book stores! 6y
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Redwritinghood Love the Book Barn! 6y
LeslieO Looks heavenly! 6y
Crazeedi Lucky you, where is this? 6y
mcipher Oooh! The book barn is great! Glad you got to check it out. Let me know if you‘re interested in meeting up another time you go - it‘s like 20 minutes from me! 😊 6y
Leftcoastzen Looks wonderful! 6y
mrozzz @Leftcoastzen @LeslieO Oh it was!! I love exploring new towns & little stores. (edited) 6y
mrozzz @Jen_is_always_reading Me too!! 🤗💕 6y
mrozzz @Redwritinghood if you can believe it, I‘d never been before! It‘s a long drive, but definitely worth the trip 6y
mrozzz @Crazeedi out in Eastern CT along the coast 😌 6y
mrozzz @mcipher Absolutely!! It‘s quite far from me but I‘d be happy to make an afternoon of it. I also need to get out to Harbor Books. I think it‘s close-ish? 6y
Amiable @mcipher Where do you live? The Book Barn is only about 20 minutes from me, too! 6y
mcipher @mrozzz Yup - Old Saybrook is close to Niantic! I‘ve never been to Harbor Books but sounds great! 6y
mcipher @Amiable Small world! I‘m in Ledyard/Groton area. How about you? 6y
Amiable @mcipher I live in the Oakdale section of Montville! 6y
mrozzz Yay!! @mcipher Let‘s definitely get together this fall 🤗 Send me an email and we‘ll find some dates that might work. melannrosenthal at gmail (edited) 6y
mcipher @Amiable Oh, wow, we are practically neighbors! 😝 6y
mcipher @mrozzz Yay! Definitely. Maybe another Litsy CT meet up is in order soon too?! 6y
mrozzz Yes please! @mcipher 6y
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Djspens
And When She Was Good | Laura Lippman
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I may just get this whole book read today. It's a good one! #lauralippman #andwhenshewasgood #lazysunday #dogsoflitsy

Djspens And done! I highly recommend this book! 6y
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Read-eat-travel-repeat
And When She Was Good | Laura Lippman
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Had a bus ride today, so I finished this book, which is what I had started before the hike. I felt okay about it, it was interesting enough that I felt compelled to keep reading but I don't know that I ended up loving it. It was entertaining, so full marks for that. (The picture is of Glacier Grey, the third biggest in the world! We saw that the last day of the W trek)

LeahBergen Beautiful! 😍 8y
Cinfhen Gorgeous ☃️☃️☃️ 8y
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Tanner
And When She Was Good | Laura Lippman
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Library book sales today in both my little town and the next town south of me. Because, you know, #youcanneverhavetoomanybooks ! And the BBE offered to take me to both (and he's a non-reader). $11 total - not too shabby!

Suzze Laura Lippman! Great writer. 💜 8y
Tanner @Suzze Isn't she though? I read a book of her short stories and it gave me the heebee-jeebies. 8y
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Ehbooklover
And When She Was Good | Laura Lippman
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Sometimes Twitter can be so cool!!! Had a "conversation" yesterday with Laura Lippman about this book. I find it interesting that she considers it "VERY divisive" as it's one of very few titles that my coworkers and I actually agree on. Did you read it? What did YOU think?

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