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20 de jun. de 2023 · Barbara Butcher was early in her recovery from alcoholism when she found an unexpected lifeline: a job at the Medical Examiner’s Office in New York City. The second woman ever hired for the role of Death Investigator in Manhattan, she was the first to last more than three months.
13 de mar. de 2007 · A middle-aged woman is involved in a hit-and-run accident. Two teenage girls are abducted from a shopping mall, never to be heard from again. These are the two major events that propel Laura Lippman's What the Dead Know, a disturbing novel of buried secrets and life's tragic surprises.
20 de jun. de 2023 · What the Dead Know is the memoir of Barbara Butcher, the second woman to ever be hired as a death investigator in Manhattan (and the first to last over 3 months). This is an in-depth account of her experience and also addresses her personal life struggles as well.
What the Dead Know is a crime thriller by the American writer Laura Lippman, published in 2007. The story, set in Baltimore in 2005, is about an investigation into a woman who claims to be Heather Bethany, a girl who had gone missing thirty years before.
10 de feb. de 2009 · One of the most acclaimed and honored writers in the field of crime fiction, Laura Lippman offers readers a gripping tale of deception and delusion, of family wounds and betrayals. Thirty years ago, the Bethany girls, ages eleven and fifteen, disappeared from a Baltimore shopping mall.
"What the Dead Know" is a well-written and well-executed mystery surrounding a 30-year-old closed case involving two missing sisters and no real clues as to the abductor or the purpose.
The woman claims one of Baltimore's beloved cops snatched her and her sister. Is it the truth-or the ravings of a damaged mind? There isn't a shred of evidence to support her story: The cop is...
