![]() The pre-millennial setting is evocatively realised and makes one pause, reliving those pre-internet days where coin-operated payphones sat on street corners, and our attention spans were under less pressure from the digital world of today. We follow the relationship of strangers Adam and Polly as summer turns to autumn, events take a few turns into the dark. Sunburn is elegantly written with an intentionally measured pace. Soon these two strangers become something more, but there is something concealed, something hidden from view for both have secrets one or both maybe running, or trying to find someone, or trying to escape? But from what, is the question the reader ponders upon. ![]() When the mysterious femme fatale Pauline / Polly apparently flees from her past arriving in Delaware, she meets (seemingly by chance) an equally enigmatic man named Adam. Lippman’s preceding work Wilde Lake is a tough act to follow, but the new novel is extraordinary and even more engaging and unsettling for the reader. This crime-thriller though set in the mid-1990s, could have been set in the golden-age of American Noir back in the 1950s. ![]() Sunburn as a slice of American Noir from former journalist, Laura Lippman explores ‘identity’ and who we think we are, as well as who we once were, and who we pretend to be. ![]() ![]() “Identity” as a theme, is one that has haunted many writers over the years. ![]()
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