books by Laura Lippman

books by Laura Lippman

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Laura Lippman

Butchers Hill LP: A Tess Monaghan Novel (Tess Monaghan)
Laura Lippman

HarperLuxe, 2008

No sooner has Tess Monaghan hung her PI-for-hire shingle outside her new office on Butchers Hill when in walks Luther Beale. The notorious vigilante who shot a boy for vandalizing his car five years ago, Luther has just gotten out of prison and wants to make amends, he says, to the kids who witnessed his crime. He needs to find them first, and ...

Baltimore Blues (Tess Monaghan Mysteries)

Laura Lippman

Avon, 1997

A reporter's mystery written by one who knows
Lippman's honest appraisal of Baltimore is tempered only by her obvious love of the city. I've lived in Baltimore, and while it gets into your heart in a short time, it's also a tough love. Baltimore has a high murder rate and more social problems than you can shake an ...

In Big Trouble (Tess Monaghan Mysteries)

Laura Lippman

Avon, 1999

continued excellence
In this continuation of the Tess Monaghan series, Ms. Lippman removes Tess from her usual milieu and places her in San Antonio, Texas, about as far, culturally-speaking, from Baltimore as can be. I live in San Antonio, so I can vouch for the accuracy with which Ms. ...

Hardly Knew Her: Stories

Laura Lippman

William Morrow, 2008

Fun and Mayhem from Laura Lippman
I am a Laura Lippman fan. I especially like her stand-along works. But I'm not a fan of short stories. They always feel too... short. But my love of Lippman won out over my apathy about short stories and I gave this book a try. There's one word to describe it: ...

What the Dead Know

Laura Lippman

Harper, 2008

Great Psychological Suspense
Boy was this book a great find. I am not a fan of detective series so when famous authors do a stand alone novel I grab it up as I did here. I read the rave reviews and must say I wholeheartedly agree. This book is an excellent psychological study of some unique and ...

Butchers Hill: A Tess Monaghan Novel (Tess Monaghan)

Laura Lippman

William Morrow, 2008

Awesome continuation of the series!
I wasn't as impressed by the book before this one, Charm City, so I hoped this one would be more like the first one in the series (Baltimore Blues), and I'm delighted to say it was. In this, book three of the Tess Monaghan series, Tess opens her own PI agency with ...

Every Secret Thing

Laura Lippman

Avon, 2004

Murder Mystery Set In Baltimore
Two eleven year old girls are kicked out of a pool party. As they walk home they encounter a young child in a carriage on her front porch. They think she's being neglected and take her to an abandoned cottage in a park. They think they will care for her as though ...

The Sugar House: A Tess Monaghan Mystery

Laura Lippman

Avon, 2001

An Absolute Sweet Treat!
When her brother goes to jail for killing a Jane Doe and he himself is killed, Ruth Denbrow hires Tess Monaghan to find out the truth regarding the Jane Doe murder. Sometimes the truth is more than you expect because this investigation will reveal some truths hidden ...

In a Strange City (Tess Monaghan Mysteries)

Laura Lippman

Avon, 2002

Man was I wrong!
Laura Lippman took me by surprise, I have to admit. I saw an interview with her on CBS' Sunday Morning a couple of years ago and bought her most recent book for my dad. He's a mystery fan who likes his crime novels on the lighter side than me. I like Lehane, Connelly, ...

Another Thing to Fall: A Novel (Tess Monaghan Mysteries)

Laura Lippman

William Morrow, 2008

A Terrific Mystery
This is Laura Lippman's fifteenth novel yet the tenth book in the series which has character Tess Monaghan, a Baltimore private detective, accepting a job as a bodyguard for a young actress. Lippman has a way of writing excellent mystery/suspense books in the old ...

The Last Place

Laura Lippman

Avon, 2003

Keeps getting better!
Laura knows her stuff. I'm not talking about reporting or the ins and outs of a being a working PI but writing novels. Not just novels but damn good novels. Here, Laura knows her stuff. Very, very well. The Last Place is excellent. If you've never read her before, ...

Baltimore Noir

Akashic Books, 2006

Charm City Crime
I read a fair amount of crime novels, and lately I've been reading a bit about Baltimore, so I finally got around to picking this anthology of Baltimore-based crime fiction up. Editor (and popular crime novelist) Laura Lippman provides a quick and dirty rundown on ...

By a Spider's Thread

Laura Lippman

Avon, 2005

Thread By Thread
Part mystery, part suspense and part character study, By A Spider's Thread pulls it off. The shifting viewpoints let us see PI Tess' perspective, of course, but also into the two suspects' heads plus the novel's winning little hero, Isaac, a nine-year-old boy. ...

Damn Near Dead: An Anthology of Geezer Noir

Duane Swierczynski, Laura Lippman, ...

Busted Flush Press, 2006

Black Diamonds
What a terrific anthology - kudo's to editor/author Duane Swierczynski for compiling this collection of short stories that define noir - hardboiled gems written with cracked asphalt and broken beer bottles; brown paper bags with cold cash or cheap whiskey or ...

Charm City (Tess Monaghan Mysteries)

Laura Lippman

Avon, 1997

A great follow-up
CHARM CITY appeals to me even more than the murder mystery that kick-started this series, BALTIMORE BLUES, because it deals with one of my personal favorite issues: journalism ethics in a constantly-changing world. While CHARM CITY is clearly a few years behind us - ...