Lippman, Laura. I'd Know You Anywhere. Morrow/HarperCollins.
Relocated from Great Britain, Eliza Benedict has a back story that can never be equaled by any of her new neighbors outside Washington, D.C. Twenty-five years earlier, known then as Elizabeth Lerner, she was kidnapped by serial murderer/rapist Walter Bowman. Strangely, she was allowed to live during her six-week captivity although she witnessed the killing of 13-year old Holly Tackett. Now Bowman faces execution in the Virginia prison system but wants to see Elizabeth/Eliza again. Bringing perpetrator and victim together is Barbara Lafortuny, a mutilated ex-teacher who spends a school district financial settlement on opposing the death penalty. In opposition are Holly's parents, who blame Eliza as much as Bowman for their daughter's death. Does Eliza want closure for her past or emotional strength especially given the rebelliousness of her own teenage daughter? Does Bowman really think his former hostage can help spare him? Such issues of pain, violence and memory are what Lippman weaves for the reader's consideration.
Also by Laura Lippman at Merrick Library:
Another Thing To Fall
By A Spider's Thread
Every Secret Thing
Hardly Knew Her: Stories
In A Strange City
The Last Place
Life Sentences
No Good Deeds
The Sugar House
To The Power Of Three
What The Dead Know
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