By A Spider's Thread

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Natalie Rubin, middle-class Jewish wife and mother, has vanished. Worse, she has taken her three children with her. Her husband, Mark, is devastated. He loves her; and he thought she was happy. So he approaches Tess to trace her.

At first Tess is wary. She doesn't like getting involved in domestic disputes, and Mark's love for his wife seems to contain a disturbing desire to control her. Did he drive her away? Did he perhaps kill her? But as Tess pursues her quest for Natalie, she discovers a woman with a mysterious past, a man whose values will challenge her own, and a family that knows how to keep its secrets... By a Spider's Thread is part tense thriller and part all-too-human drama about what families do to each other.

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Praise for By A Spider's Thread

  • Lippman exaines in depth the concept of marriage and the reasons why families fall apart. - GOOD BOOK GUIDE, December 2005

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Laura Lippman

Laura Lippman

Before becoming a full time novelist, Laura Lippman was a newspaper reporter for 20 years. Among Laura's various awards and nominations she won the Anthony Award for Every Secret Thing and has now been nominated for the 2005 Edgar Award for A Spider's Thread. Laura Lippman lives in Baltimore.

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