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The Girl in the Green Raincoat
Laura Lippman
2011, 158 pages
Fiction
“I am being held hostage,” Tess Monaghan whispers into the phone at the opening of this slim but powerful mystery. Tess is bedridden during a difficult pregnancy and feels trapped. She is reduced to living in her winterized sun porch, watching people walk their dogs in the nearby park. A young woman in a green raincoat walks her small greyhound every day at the same time, until one day Tess sees the dog running in a panic, trailing its lead, with no owner in sight. Tess begins to investigate, and it turns out that the missing woman's husband has been widowed twice before.
If you liked the chills of the Hitchcock movie Rear Window, you will love this book. Tess has no idea the danger she is in as she pokes into this case. And it's worth staying up late to read the climax when Dempsey, the lost greyhound, makes his move!
