Sunburn - Laura Lippman

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Every time Laura Lippman comes out with a new book, I get chills because I know I am back in the hands of the master.

She is simply a brilliant novelist, an unflinching chronicler of life in America right now , and Sunburn is her dark, gleaming noir gem.

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-Gillian Flynn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Gone Girl New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman returns with a superb novel of psychological suspense about a pair of lovers with the best intentions and the worst luck: two people locked in a passionate yet uncompromising game of cat and mouse.

But instead of rules, this game has dark secrets, forbidden desires, inevitable betrayals--and cold-blooded murder.

One is playing a long game.

But which one? They meet at a local tavern in the small town of Belleville, Delaware.

Polly is set on heading west.

Adam says he's also passing through.

Yet she stays and he stays--drawn to this mysterious redhead whose quiet stillness both unnerves and excites him.

Over the course of a punishing summer, Polly and Adam abandon themselves to a steamy, inexorable affair.

Still, each holds something back from the other--dangerous, even lethal, secrets.

Then someone dies.

Was it an accident, or part of a plan? By now, Adam and Polly are so ensnared in each other's lives and lies that neither one knows how to get away--or even if they want to.

Is their love strong enough to withstand the truth, or will it ultimately destroy them? Something--or someone--has to give.

Which one will it be? Inspired by James M.

Cain's masterpieces The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, and Mildred Pierce , Sunburn is a tantalizing modern noir from the incomparable Laura Lippman.