In Conversation: Alison Gaylin and Laura Lippman

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the collective by alison gaylin

“The Collective feels like the book of the moment, the year. Clever, compassionate and all too believable.”
— Laura Lippman, New York Times bestselling author of Dream Girl

Alison Gaylin celebrates the launch of her new novel, The Collective, with fellow thriller author Laura Lippman, whose latest book Dream Girl was released in June 2021.

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    Alison Gaylin

    Alison Gaylin

    USA Today and international bestselling author Alison Gaylin has been nominated for the Edgar four times. Most recently, her thriller If I Die Tonight won the award in the category Best Paperback Original. She has also won the Shamus and RT Reviewers Choice awards and has been nominated for the Anthony, ITW Thriller, and Strand Book Awards. Her books are published in several countries, including the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Japan, Romania, and the Netherlands. She lives with her husband and daughter in Woodstock, New York.

    Photo Credit: Michael Gaylin

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    Laura Lippman

    Laura Lippman

    Laura Lippman was a reporter for twenty years, including twelve years at the (Baltimore) Sun. She began writing novels while working full time and published seven books about “accidental PI” Tess Monaghan before leaving daily journalism in 2001. Her work has been awarded the Edgar, the Anthony, the Agatha, the Shamus, the Nero Wolfe, Gumshoe, and Barry awards. She also has been nominated for other prizes in the crime fiction field, including the Hammett and the Macavity. She was the first-ever recipient of the Mayor’s Prize for Literary Excellence and the first genre writer recognized as Author of the Year by the Maryland Library Association.

    Ms. Lippman grew up in Baltimore and attended city schools through ninth grade. After graduating from Wilde Lake High School in Columbia, Md., Ms. Lippman attended Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. Her other newspaper jobs included the Waco Tribune-Herald and the San Antonio Light.

    Ms. Lippman returned to Baltimore in 1989 and has lived there since. She is the daughter of Theo Lippman Jr., a Sun editorial writer who retired in 1995 but continues to freelance for several newspapers, and Madeline Mabry Lippman, a former Baltimore City school librarian. Her sister, Susan, is a local bookseller.

    Photo Credit: Lesley Unruh

Featured Books

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    The Collective

    By Alison Gaylin

    Published by William Morrow

    Camille Gardner is a grieving—and angry—mother who, five years after her daughter’s death, is still obsessed with the privileged young man she believes to be responsible.

    When her rash actions draw the attention of a secret group of women—the collective— Camille is drawn into a dark web where these mothers share their wildly different stories of loss as well as their desire for justice in a world where privilege denies accountability. Fueled by mutual rage, the collective members devise and act out retribution fantasies via precise, anonymous, highly coordinated revenge killings.

    As Camille struggles to comprehend whether this is a role-playing exercise or terrifying reality, she must decide if these women are truly avenging angels or monsters. Becoming more deeply enmeshed in the group, Camille learns truths about the collective—and about herself—that she may not be able to survive.

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    DREAM GIRL - Zara Hoffman

    Dream Girl

    By Laura Lippman

    Published by William Morrow

    PURCHASE

    Injured in a freak fall, novelist Gerry Andersen is confined to a hospital bed in his glamorous high-rise apartment, dependent on two women he barely knows: his incurious young assistant, and a dull, slow-witted night nurse.

    Then late one night, the phone rings. The caller claims to be the “real” Aubrey, the alluring title character from his most successful novel, Dream Girl. But there is no real Aubrey. She’s a figment born of a writer’s imagination, despite what many believe or claim to know. Could the cryptic caller be one of his three ex-wives playing a vindictive trick after all these years? Or is she Margot, an ex-girlfriend who keeps trying to insinuate her way back into Gerry’s life?

    And why does no one believe that the call even happened?

    Isolated from the world, drowsy from medication, Gerry slips between reality and a dreamlike state in which he is haunted by his own past: his faithless father, his devoted mother; the women who loved him, the women he loved.

    And now here is Aubrey, threatening to visit him, suggesting that she is owed something. Is the threat real or is it a sign of dementia? Which scenario would he prefer? Gerry has never been so alone, so confused – and so terrified.

    Chilling and compulsively readable, touching on timely issues that include power, agency, appropriation, and creation, Dream Girl is a superb blend of psychological suspense and horror that reveals the mind and soul of a writer.

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    DREAM GIRL - Zara Hoffman
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