Review: I am so surprised! This is a great short story!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 21, 2009
I was disappointed to see so many poor reviews... not sure what that is about but Laura Lipmann is a fantastic writer.  I wasn't even all that interested in this because I'm not a big short-story kinda person... but I read the first page and then that was it for me, I was completely sucked in.What happens when you put a babysitter in a wealthy family's house where the mother is a second wife, way too young for the father and something is not quite right with the baby?  The babysitter does a little snooping and finds... a gun in the mom's lingerie drawer?I couldn't stop reading until the last page.  I think I'm going to buy the book from whick it is excerpted, if I can find it!  A very quick read but highly entertaining.  Will get you through a half-hour bus ride or while you are waiting in the pick-up line at school(well at least at my kid's school- they need a better system!!), or hey, the bathwater might cool off a little by the time you finish this one but definately worth it!