Hardly Knew her Stories Author:Laura Lippman Part one, Girls Gone Wild, focuses on women engaged in all manner of shady enterprises, from first-time drug buyers in The Crack Cocaine Diet to an unassuming femme fatale with a secret in Dear Penthouse Forum (A First Draft). — Lest readers think Lippman can only work her magic in her Maryland hometown, she devotes a section, Other Cities, Not M... more »y Own, to stories in settings as disparate as New Orleans during Mardi Gras (Pony Girl) and Dublin, Ireland, full of jilted lovers (Honor Bar).
The book's climax is Scratch a Woman, a novella written for the collection and starring Heloise, the enterprising heroine of One True Love, an earlier entry. George Pelecanos provides an appreciative introduction.« less