Laura Lippman’s ‘Dream Girl’ Is The Latest Thriller To Center On Stolen Stories

Dream Girl: A Novel by Laura Lippman

Many of this year’s mystery and suspense novels explore literary appropriation — characters in positions of privilege laying their sticky mitts on stories that don’t belong to them.

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Many of this year’s mystery and suspense novels explore literary appropriation — characters in positions of privilege laying their sticky mitts on stories that don’t belong to them.