Sunburn

<p><strong>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 <em>right now</em> and <em>Sunburn</em> is her dark gleaming noir gem. Read it.<em> </em>-Gillian Flynn #1 <em>New York Times </em>bestselling author of </strong><em><strong>Gone Girl</strong></em><br/></p><p><strong><strong><em></em></strong></strong></p><p><strong><em>New York Times</em> bestselling author Laura Lippman returns with a superb novel of psychological suspense about a pair of lovers with the best intentions and the worst luck: two people locked in a passionate yet uncompromising game of cat and mouse. But instead of rules this game has dark secrets forbidden desires inevitable betrayals--and cold-blooded murder.</strong></p><p><em>One is playing a long game. But which one?</em></p><p>They meet at a local tavern in the small town of Belleville Delaware. Polly is set on heading west. Adam says he's also passing through. Yet she stays and he stays--drawn to this mysterious redhead whose quiet stillness both unnerves and excites him. Over 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.</p><p>Then someone dies. Was it an accident or part of a plan? By now Adam and Polly are so ensnared in each other's lives and lies that neither one knows how to get away--or even if they want to. Is their love strong enough to withstand the truth or will it ultimately destroy them?</p><p>Something--or someone--has to give.</p><p><em>Which one will it be?</em></p><p>Inspired by James M. Cain's masterpieces <em>The Postman Always Rings Twice Double </em><em>Indemnity </em> and <em>Mildred Pierce</em> <em>Sunburn </em>is a tantalizing modern noir from the incomparable Laura Lippman.</p>