Laura Lippman - To the Power of Three (2005)
Reviewed by David J. Montgomery
Those seeking something more realistic from their summer reading need look no further than Laura Lippman’s To the Power of Three, a powerful story that is a mystery only in the same sense that To Kill a Mockingbird was.
This is the brilliant, insightful, moving tale of three girls, best friends forever, whose lives crumble when a shooting at their suburban Baltimore high school leaves one injured, one dead and one dying.
The plot is finely-tuned and suspenseful, but the real power here is in the characters. Lippman has created such sharp, vibrant and believable people to tell her story that you’d almost think you were reading a work of non-fiction, rather than a novel.
The troika of teen girls who form the center of the story are as real, as intriguing and as heartbreaking as any characters you will encounter. Never mind the Edgar Award; give To the Power of Three the Pulitzer Prize. It is just that good.
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