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By education and experience - Accountant with a specialty in taxation. Formerly a CPA (license has lapsed). Masters degree in law of taxation from University of Denver. Now retired. Part time work during baseball season as receptionist & switchboard operator for the Colorado Rockies. This gig feeds my soul in ways I have trouble articulating. One daughter, and four grandchildren. I share the house with two cats; a big goof of a cat called Grinch (named as a joke for his easy going "whatever" disposition); and Lady, a shelter adoptee with a regal bearing and sweet little soprano voice. I would be very bereft if it ever becomes necessary to keep house without a cat.
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WHAT THE DEAD KNOW by Laura Lippmann
There is a death, or at least the reader THINKS there has been a death, but this is not precisely a murder mystery. Like EVERY SECRET THING, also by Lippmann, this book is nevertheless profoundly mysterious in every possible way.
The opportunities for spoilers abound, almost any description of the action holds the potential for giving away too much. Loosely based (very loosely) on a real life incident in early 1970's Baltimore, this is a riveting read.
Lippmann's action follows two teenaged sisters who talk their parents into an unsupervised afternoon at a local mall. They never return, nor are they ever heard from again. 25 years later, a policeman at the scene of a multi-car accident on a snowy bridge follows a vehicle which was involved in the precipitating sideswipe and then left the area. When the driver is apprehended, she claims to be one of the long lost girls.
From there, the action moves back and forth in time - to the time of the girls' disappearance and forward to the present day as the Baltimore police try to figure out what is really going on, with other chapters following the many characters during the intervening period. The tiniest detail is important to the eventual understanding.
I picked it up late last night, went to bed after about 80 pages, and got up this morning and more or less finished the book before I did anything else of import.
My part time gig as a tax accountant ended yesterday afternoon, and immersing myself in this book was my treat to myself for one more year over and done.
I can strongly recommend this to any reader.
There is a death, or at least the reader THINKS there has been a death, but this is not precisely a murder mystery. Like EVERY SECRET THING, also by Lippmann, this book is nevertheless profoundly mysterious in every possible way.
The opportunities for spoilers abound, almost any description of the action holds the potential for giving away too much. Loosely based (very loosely) on a real life incident in early 1970's Baltimore, this is a riveting read.
Lippmann's action follows two teenaged sisters who talk their parents into an unsupervised afternoon at a local mall. They never return, nor are they ever heard from again. 25 years later, a policeman at the scene of a multi-car accident on a snowy bridge follows a vehicle which was involved in the precipitating sideswipe and then left the area. When the driver is apprehended, she claims to be one of the long lost girls.
From there, the action moves back and forth in time - to the time of the girls' disappearance and forward to the present day as the Baltimore police try to figure out what is really going on, with other chapters following the many characters during the intervening period. The tiniest detail is important to the eventual understanding.
I picked it up late last night, went to bed after about 80 pages, and got up this morning and more or less finished the book before I did anything else of import.
My part time gig as a tax accountant ended yesterday afternoon, and immersing myself in this book was my treat to myself for one more year over and done.
I can strongly recommend this to any reader.
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