shifts between passages hard-boiled and satirical.
Dream Girl offers a healthy dose of suspense and wittily skewers literary life." -
Wall Street Journal"Socially conscious (the #MeToo movement makes a decisive entrance into the plot) and packed with humor, ghosts and narrative turns of the screw, Lippman's
Dream Girl is indeed a dream of a novel for suspense lovers and fans of literary satire alike." -
Washington Post"Laura Lippman is one of the best novelists working today, period. Seeing her name on the cover of a book is a guarantee of a highly satisfying reading experience...Laura Lippman is a major writer. If you don't know her, there's 25 books waiting for you." -
Chicago Tribune"Positively humming with the vibrancy of a slew of crime-fiction authors during a high-energy drinking session,
Dream Girl shimmers with suspense, surprises, wry humor, and an ever-present stream of appreciations for the pleasures, frustrations, and oddities inherent in the life of a writer." -
Boston Globe"A nicely shivery homage to Stephen King's
Misery with an atmosphere all its own." -
Seattle Times"Dream Girl is the darkly comic thriller of the season." -
Irish Times"My dream novel. I devoured this in three days. The sharpest, clearest-eyed take on our #MeToo reckoning yet. Plus: enthralling." -
Megan Abbott, Edgar Award-winning author of Dare Me and The Fever"Dream Girl the ideal cutting-edge, socially-conscious entertainment for late summer. . . . Packed with social criticism, satire, ghosts and narrative turns of the screw, Lippman's
Dream Girl is indeed a dream of a novel." -
Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air"High tension fuels
Dream Girl while vividly illustrating the humiliation of being confined to a bed, having every bodily need tended by another... Edgar winner Lippman, who has won every mystery award, envelops witty dialogue, a complicated character and a complex plot in
Dream Girl." -
The Sun-Sentinel"Perceptive, often amusing insights into a writer's mind make this a standout. Lippman is in top form for this enticingly witty, multilayered guessing game." -
Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Lippman never stops twisting the plot into a deliciously intricate pretzel, right up to the jaw-dropping finale. This is both a beguiling look at the mysteries of authorship and a powerful #MeToo novel, but that's only the tip of a devilishly jagged iceberg..." -
Booklist (starred review)"Lippman (
Lady in the Lake) nods at Stephen King and Alfred Hitchcock in this hair-raising tale, but makes it wholly hers and completely riveting. She conveys the horror of being housebound and reliant on strangers, as well as the fear of losing one's mind. It's a page-turning, plot-twisting masterpiece." -
Library Journal (starred review)
