# What the Dead Know

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- Book: [What the Dead Know](https://www.bookquiver.com/laura-lippman/what-the-dead-know) ([What the Dead Know.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/laura-lippman/what-the-dead-know.md))
- Authors: [Laura Lippman](https://www.bookquiver.com/laura-lippman)
- Publisher: Orion
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-0913-874-7
- Published: 2011-11-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

'Echoes Dennis Lehane's SHUTTER ISLAND and Alice Sebold's THE LOVELY BONES ... but surpasses them' Washington Post A woman causes an accident on a major highway, flees the scene and is later picked up wandering on the shoulder of the Interstate. The accident occurs just a mile from the former home of the Bethany family. Thirty years before, twelve-year-old Heather persuaded her older sister Sunny to let her tag along on a visit to the mall. Neither of the girls has been seen since. Now, the woman on the Beltway claims to be Heather Bethany. Today she has a different name; a different identity. What has prompted this woman to announce her true - if it is true - identity at this moment? As the layers of Heather's past are revealed, secrets are discovered about her parents, sister, friends, teachers, and the detective who handled the case - until finally the shocking truth is uncovered about what really happened to Heather and Sunny on that long ago afternoon.