![]() ![]() Laura Lippman is the critically acclaimed and bestselling author of twelve volumes featuring private investigator Tess Monaghan, as well as twelve previous stand-alone novels. Gerry has never been so alone, so confused – and so terrified. Is the threat real or is it a sign of dementia? Which scenario would he prefer? Now Aubrey is threatening to visit him, suggesting she is owed something. ![]() ![]() Isolated from the world, drowsy from medication, Gerry slips between reality and a dreamlike state in which he is haunted by his own past: his faithless father, his devoted mother the women who loved him, the women he loved. Could the cryptic caller be one of his three ex-wives playing a vindictive trick after all these years? Or is she Margot, the embittered ex-girlfriend who keeps trying to insinuate her way back into Gerry's life?Īnd why does no one believe that the call even happened? ![]() She's a figment born of a writer's imagination, despite wild theories, speculation, and assertions from many who claim to know. The caller claims to be the “ real” Aubrey, the alluring title character from his most successful novel, dream girl.īut there is no real Aubrey. Injured in a freak fall, novelist Gerry Andersen is confined to a hospital bed in his glamorous high-rise Baltimore apartment, completely dependent on two women he barely knows: his incurious young assistant, and a dull, slow-witted night nurse. In the end, has anyone really led a blameless life? ![]()
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