Hints of Heloise: One True Love, Scratch a Woman
About this ebook
Featured in Laura Lippman’s novel And When She Was Good, Heloise first appeared in two short stories, “One True Love” and “Scratch a Woman”.
On a children’s soccer field in “One True Love”, a chance collision threatens her carefully constructed life when an arrogant client attempts extortion.
“Scratch a Woman” turns suburban quiet deadly in Turner’s Grove, drawing Heloise into the volatile secrets of her estranged half-sister. Operating from her Anne Arundel County home, she discovers that quiet cul-de-sacs conceal hazards far more treacherous than the city streets she left behind.
In a third story, “Form 95”, a police detective spins a web that not even the vigilant Heloise suspects. Available singly or as a collection.
- Psychological Suspense: Operating from a quiet finished basement, a paroled office manager helps coordinate an executive escort service equipped with GPS jewelry and coded check-ins.
- Morally Grey Heroine: Heloise fiercely guards her suburban life, balancing soccer sidelines with prison visits to the death-row convict who has no idea he fathered her redheaded son.
- Domestic Noir: When an arrogant client threatens exposure, Heloise orchestrates a lethal counter-strategy to protect her home without alerting the neighborhood gossip mill.
- Also by This Author: Lady in the Lake, Sunburn and Murder Takes a Vacation.
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About the author
Since Laura Lippman’s debut, she has been recognized as a distinctive voice in mystery fiction and named one of the “essential” crime writers of the last 100 years. Stephen King called her “special, even extraordinary,” and Gillian Flynn wrote, “She is simply a brilliant novelist.” Her books have won most of the major awards in her field and been translated into more than twenty-five languages. She lives in Baltimore and New Orleans with her teenager.
