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The Most Dangerous Thing - Laura Lippman This is going to make me sound like a horrible person, but I might as well put it up front: I didn't enjoy this as much as some other Lippman books I've read recently, because the people aren't nearly so awful. In her usual way she's exploring how events in the past are never hidden, how they rise up again in the present, and how secrets can wreck lives. But none of these characters is irredeemable, everyone is doing the best they can with the information they have at the time, and no one choice defines your life. Well, that's the sort of thing I love in novels, generally. I like an author who is kind and sympathetic to her characters, even as she mocks their worst traits.Don't get me wrong, I was fully engaged in the reading, and deeply resentful of life intruding in the last hundred pages. I'm just feeling a little let down because I was expecting more noir. Expecting Jim Thompson, I instead got Anne Tyler. Okay, not really, it wasn't that warm and quirky, but it was very humane. In the long run I'll probably consider this my favorite of Lippman's novels. But right now, I'm missing the evil.Library copy.