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title: "Sunburn Paperback – 1 Mar 2018"
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# Sunburn Paperback – 1 Mar 2018

**Brand:** laura lippman
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- **What is this?** Sunburn Paperback – 1 Mar 2018 by laura lippman
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        			&apos;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. Read it.&apos; -- Gillian FlynnA joy to read ... a classic noir transplanted to the 1990s with a beguiling femme fatale at the centre of the action., Bookseller, Editor&apos;s ChoiceYou can tell how much fun the author had updating the classic noir tropes, and it&apos;s contagious. Plotty, page-turning pleasure., Kirkus (starred review)&apos;Just try to read this slowly ... Modern noir at its best, it will delight old-movie lovers, satisfy suspense readers, and reward Lippman&apos;s legion of fans.&apos;, Library Journal (starred review)Another extraordinary novel from Laura Lippman - full of just-one-more chapter, stay-up-late suspense, but packed too with nuance, subtlety, observation and humanity. Lippman is a natural storyteller at the height of her powers. -- Lee Child&apos;Laura Lippman&apos;s Sunburn grips like the classic Hollywood black-and-white movie thrillers of the 1930s and 1940s...Profoundly atmospheric , Sunburn unsettles from its first page.&apos; -- Marcel Berlins, The Times&apos;Note-perfect noir ... not to be missed.&apos; -- Megan AbbottIn &quot;Sunburn,&quot; a mysterious redhead leaves her husband and child, adopts a new identity and moves to a small town in Delaware. She is soon ensnared in an affair with a secretive stranger she meets in a local tavern. Her true nature-criminal with a shady past or damsel in distress-is uncertain. &quot;I feel like it creates a whole new category, which I&apos;m thinking of as &apos;femme noir,&apos;&quot; says Ms. Haber. &quot;Laura&apos;s done something very feminist, very revolutionary. She&apos;s taken this traditional noir structure of a man sweeping in to save a woman who then turns around and eats his heart out-she&apos;s turned that notion on its head. -- Leigh Haber, O, The Oprah Magazine books editor and book scout for Oprah&#x2019;s Book ClubLaura Lippman&apos;s homage to the hardboiled, morally ambiguous novels of James M Cain, has the texture and many of the tropes of classic American noir... Lippman uses multiple narrators and controls the flow of information masterfully in this tantalising, ingeniously constructed page-turner. -- Laura Wilson, GuardianLippman has created the perfect page-turner; gripping from start to finish, brimming with lies, forbidden desires, cold-blooded murder, blackmail and betrayal, and with not a word out of place, Sunburn is not just one of the year&apos;s most anticipated novels, it could well turn out to be one of its best. -- Pam Norfolk, Lancashire Evening Post
				    	
			    	
        		  
        		  
        	
          
              
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        			Meet Polly, which may or may not be her real name, this year&apos;s most dangerous leading lady...
				    	
			    	
        		  
        		  
        	
          
              
        	  	  About the Author
        	  
        	  
        		  
        			Laura Lippman&apos;s novels have won many crime fiction prizes, including the Edgar, Anthony and Agatha Awards. Sunburn (2018), her second consecutive novel to win the eDunnit Award at Crimefest, was also nominated for the CWA Gold Dagger Award and was a Waterstones Book of the Month. Her most recent novel Lady in the Lake (2019) featured in numerous Best of Year Lists. To find out more about Laura visit www.lauralippman.com

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## Customer Reviews

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    Damp squib
  

*by P***A on 28 August 2018*









  
  
    I'm new to this author and won't be bothering again. There are many writers at the moment who try far too hard and have an annoying habit of putting in too many adjectives, figures of speech, etc. etc., making their prose far too flowery.  This was the total opposite and I found the writing laconic and totally dull. This was not helped by the fact that nothing much was happening. We know early on that Polly is being investigated by Adam in order to discover where she has hidden a large amount of money she obtained fraudulently, and that they have an affair. But all the main characters, apart from Adam, are sleazy and up to criminal activities so we don't really care who ends up with this money as they are all dodgy and unpleasant.The next bit of this review may constitute a bit of a spoiler as I have to mention how I feel about the ending, which caused me to knock a star off.The ending. Nothing, but nothing happened. No surprises. No one turning out to be anything other than how they had been portrayed throughout. I closed the book with an enormous feeling of wondering why on earth anyone would want to read this and what the point of it was. One of the dullest, worst endings I can remember....actually, I can't remember it. Two days later and I've struggled to write this review as I've forgotten most of it.
  


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    Addictive
  

*by K***Y on 12 July 2018*









  
  
    I inhaled this book. What a great tag line: She has nothing to lose. And everything to hide. The cover is slathered with glowing reviews from big names, big papers (and the Daily Fail) but you know that Lippman's got a career that has more than earned those plaudits.This is neo-noir yet as fresh as summer rain (I say with relief that we've finally got some this morning -- a hot Scotland is just unnatural). Sure it's got a sexy woman with secrets, private investigators and all kinds of people out to get something and damn the consequences. Lippman takes these sometimes self-conscious tropes and plays with them. Polly actually discovers noir during a bad marriage and it's literally a lifesaver for her. Adam is no Sam Spade and hurrah for that, but he's no Walter Neff either.It's an irresistible joy to watch two people fall for each other when they're not sure they can trust each other and everything is against them -- but you're not sure what's true and neither are they. Lippman alternates between a variety of characters from chapter to chapter and you learn things you didn't know as well as wrong assumptions they're making about others. Sometimes you just want to shout at the characters (or maybe that's just me).Some quotes:The problem is, when a man wants her, he usually won't stop trying to get her. They wear her down, men. She starts off by taking pity on them, ends up feeling sorry for herself.It's a special art, asking people to do things, yet making it seem as if you never asked at all. How had she even figured out what he was planning to do? A witch, that one. She's a witch.Sometimes he used to wake up in the middle of the night and find her looking at him. The light from the streetlamp threw a stripe across her eyes, and it was as if she were wearing a mask that allowed her to read his every thought.Maybe she should write an advice book for men, one that tells them everything they want to hear, as opposed to all those books for women, which tell them to be the opposite of what they are, no matter what that is.I could keep quoting but this gives you a great idea: lean, mean, addictive -- up to the last pages you won't be sure how things will go. What a pleasure.
  


### ⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Good holiday read
  

*by L***M on 31 August 2018*









  
  
    ver 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 that begin to accumulate as autumn approaches, feeding the growing doubts they conceal.This is billed a noir thriller and has lots of recommendations (Stephen King is quoted on the back). Overall the style is great, I liked the plot and it was a good summer book to read as you could feel the heat from this small town coming off the page. The main problem with this book for me is that the two main characters are meant to have this intense passionate love, and that I didn't see at all. They said they loved each other but it wasn't shown and as that is a key reason why they do what they do, I felt I should have believed in them more. Good overall though.
  


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