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Laura Lippman, author of Wilde Lake

Luisa “Lu” Brant is the newly elected --- and first female --- state’s attorney of Howard County, Maryland. She sees an opportunity to make her name by trying a mentally disturbed drifter accused of beating a woman to death. The case dredges up painful memories, reminding her family of the night when her brother, AJ, saved his best friend at the cost of another man’s life. Lu now wonders if the events of 1980 happened as she remembers them. What details might have been withheld when she was a child? The more she learns about the case, the more questions arise.

Week of February 13, 2017

Paperback releases for the week of February 13th include WILDE LAKE by Laura Lippman, in which the case of a mentally disturbed drifter accused of beating a woman to death brings up painful memories of prosecutor Luisa Brant's past; Jacqueline Winspear's JOURNEY TO MUNICH, which finds Maisie Dobbs being sent to Hitler’s Germany as she works with the British Secret Service on an undercover mission; NELLY DEAN, a novel by Alison Case that re-imagines life at Wuthering Heights through the eyes of the Earnshaws’ loyal servant; and THE BLACK CALHOUNS, in which Gail Lumet Buckley --- daughter of actress Lena Horne --- delves deep into her family history, detailing the experiences of an extraordinary African-American family from Civil War to Civil Rights.