Every Secret Thing

De: Laura Lippman

Narrado por: Celeste Ciulla

One of mystery writing's most acclaimed novelists for her brilliant Tess Monaghan series, Laura Lippman won the Anthony and Barry Awards for this riveting stand-alone.

Kicked out of a birthday party, 11-year-olds Alice and Ronnie walk home and encounter a baby left in a carriage. Their earnest desire to do a good deed ends tragically, however, and seven years later they are released from "kid prison" to start their lives anew.

©2003 Laura Lippmann (P)2009 Recorded Books, LLC

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Lippman has won just about every mystery writing award there is - the Edgar, the Agatha, the Anthony, the Shamus, and the Nero Wolfe - for her Tess Monaghan series. This is her first stand-alone mystery, one in which the detectives are consigned to bit parts....Lippman doesn't write a standard whodunit here but plays with reader expectations of what should happen next. A startling page-turner." ( Booklist)

Average storyline. Narration was annoying.

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

It helped pass time on a long drive.

What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?

The basic story of the young girls kidnapping a baby was interesting.
The female police officer story line was not interesting -- the dialogue was between the police seemed stilted and unrealistic. The character of Helen Manning was not believable -- mainly because she was undeveloped.

Would you be willing to try another one of Celeste Ciulla’s performances?

No.

Was Every Secret Thing worth the listening time?

No.

Killer kids?

Loved the twist! The person I thought was the evil one wasn’t evil at all!!!

Horrible narration

Any additional comments?

It sounds like a Kindergarten teacher reading to her students. The themes, dialogue, and content just sounded wrong in such a whimsical voice. The story was pretty good. I imagine it would be a good book to read on a plane or at the beach. Terrible listen, however...

Love it

I loved the movie and I loved the book. It was very good and I enjoyed it.

I really wanted to like this book

There were a lot of things that bothered me about this book. First, the storyline, at least for the first two-thirds of the book, was not terribly interesting. Moreover, the author used stereotypes of fat people, black people, Latinos, and poor white people throughout. The narration was also annoying. The voices that the actor used were also stereotypical and in addition to mispronouncing some words, simply didn't match the characters.