PositivePittsburgh Post-GazetteIn Laura Lippman\'s newest novel, And When She Was Good, the Edgar-winning mystery writer draws a nuanced portrait of a survivor who trusts no one and goes to desperate measures to give her son the kind of childhood she never had ... To create empathy for her character who is not always likable, Ms. Lippman alternates between the present Heloise and her past life when she was named Helen, a promising straight A-student ... Ms. Lippman, a new mother, has some great lines about Heloise trying to figure out the bewildering world of new motherhood while balancing a demanding career ... While she captures a new mother\'s anxiety, she skims over the challenges of mothering a fatherless teenager, describing Scott as a perfect child ... But Heloise is a rich character whose maternal fierceness is authentic. Laura Lippman creates a memorable mother from the suburban madam plucked from the latest newspaper headlines.