Laura Lippman's Life Sentences
This was categorized as a mystery at the library--I guess b/c mysteries are Lippman's usual fare--but it wasn't much of one. Which isn't to say it's a bad story, just that it's not a very good mystery. It's really more of a character study, as a fifty-something memoirist decides to investigate a case involving a childhood classmate. But it's much more about the memoirit meandering down memory lane than it is about the case, and when the information is finally revealed, it's really anticlimactic. I think I would have liked this much more if it hadn't been billed as a mystery and if it had a different ending. B.
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