Adult

For Tess Monaghan, the unsolved murder of a young federal prosecutor is nothing more than a theoretical problem, until her boyfriend, Crow, brings home a juvenile con artist who doesn’t even realize he holds an important key to the sensational homicide. Tess agrees to protect the boy’s identity no matter what, and with federal agents determined to learn the boy’s name at any cost, Tess finds out just how far even official authorities will go to get what they want.

In Laura Lippman's latest stand-alone novel (following 2003's EVERY SECRET THING), the lives of three girls who have been best friends for years --- and the affluent community in which they reside --- are forever changed when one of them brings a gun to school to resolve a mysterious feud.