Laura Lippman, Author . Morrow $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-380-97819-9
Favors for friends don't always turn out as expected, Tess Monagham learns in this harrowing encounter with obsession involving her own past. At the urging of best friend Whitney Talbot, Tess agrees to research how police inexperienced with...
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Laura Lippman. Morrow, $26.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-208345-6
Luisa “Lu” Brant, the heroine of this richly plotted and emotionally devastating standalone from Lippman (Hush, Hush), has been newly elected as state’s attorney of Maryland’s Howard County. She’s back in her hometown of Columbia, where she and her...
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Laura Lippman. Morrow, $26.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-06-208342-5
In bestseller Lippman’s searing 12th installment in her series featuring Baltimore PI Tess Monaghan (last seen in the 2011 novella “The Girl in the Green Raincoat”), Tess, now the mother of a three-year-old girl with longtime boyfriend Crow,...
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Laura Lippman. Morrow, $26.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-208339-5
On July 4, 1976, shady businessman Felix Brewer escapes the law by fleeing suburban Maryland, leaving behind his wife, Bambi; three daughters; and a mistress, Julie Saxony. So begins bestseller Lippman's finely wrought study of what it means to move
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Laura Lippman. Morrow, $26.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-170687-5
The consequences of long-buried secrets involving misogyny, motherhood, and morality play out in this excellent stand-alone set in suburban Maryland from Edgar-winner Lippman (The Most Dangerous Thing). Introduced in the novella “Scratch a Woman,”...
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Laura Lippman. Morrow, $25.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-170651-6
Childhood friends, long since splintered off, uneasily reunite after the death of one of their own in Edgar-winner Lippman's superbly unsettling tale of the consequences of long-buried secrets. Gordon "Go-Go" Halloran drives his car into a wall...
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Laura Lippman, Author William Morrow & Company $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-380-97817-5
Glue-sniffing teen Henry Dembrow goes to prison after confessing to killing a young Jane Doe found with a small rubber hose tied in a bow around her neck. A month later he, too, is dead. Coincidence? Ruthie Dembrow, Henry's sister, has her doubts...
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Laura Lippman, Author Avon Books $7.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-380-79847-6
When Baltimore PI Tess Monaghan receives an envelope postmarked Boerne, Tex., containing a photo of Crow, her former musician boyfriend, and a scrap of newspaper headline reading ""in big trouble,"" a day's outing to visit Crow's parents in...
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Laura Lippman, Author Avon Books $7.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-380-79846-9
Tess Monaghan, newspaperwoman turned sleuth, makes it official with a new business as a PI in a run-down section of Baltimore, Butchers Hill. Her first clients--an elderly man known as the Butcher of Butchers Hill and a highly successful female...
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Laura Lippman, Author Avon Books $7.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-380-78876-7
""Defrocked journalist"" turned private investigator Tess Monaghan (from Baltimore Blues) is posing as a reporter for the Baltimore Beacon-Light, aka the Blight, in order to look into the apparent suicide of hometown hero and tycoon ""Wink""...
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Laura Lippman, Author Avon Books $7.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-380-78875-0
Downsized ex-reporter Tess Monaghan spends her days working part-time at the bookstore owned by sexy Aunt Kitty and trying not to fall into the disgustingly polluted Patapsco from her city-owned boat. When rowing buddy Rocky pays her what looks like
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Laura Lippman, Avon, $13.99 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-0-06-193836-8
Originally serialized in the New York Times Magazine, Lippman's Tess Monaghan novella turns the intrepid Baltimore PI's at-risk late-pregnancy bed rest into a compellingly edgy riff on Hitchcock's Rear Window. Lovingly tucked up on her winterized...
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Laura Lippman, Morrow, $25.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-170655-4
Near the start of this outstanding novel of psychological suspense from Edgar-winner Lippman (Life Sentences), Eliza Benedict, a 38-year-old married mother of two living in suburban Maryland, receives a letter from Walter Bowman, the man who...
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Laura Lippman, Author . Morrow $24.99 (344p) ISBN 978-0-06112-889-9
This stunning stand-alone from bestseller Lippman (Baltimore Blues
) examines the extraordinary power and fragility of memories. Writer Cassandra Fallows achieved critical and commercial success with an account of her Baltimore childhood growing up...
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Laura Lippman, Author , read by Linda Emond and Francois Battiste. HarperAudio $34.99 (
, unabridged, eight CDs, 9.5 hrs., $34.99 ISBN ) ISBN 978-0-06-166159-4
, unabridged, eight CDs, 9.5 hrs., $34.99 ISBN ) ISBN 978-0-06-166159-4
It’s not Linda Emond’s fault that most of Lippman’s women who kill are white, middle-class and between the aged 30–40. Almost all live in the corridor between Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., and eradicate men who have it...
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Laura Lippman, Author . Morrow $23.95 (292p) ISBN 978-0-06-158499-2
Fans of bestseller Lippman's long-running series featuring Baltimore PI Tess Monaghan (Another Thing to Fall
, etc.) will be pleased to find that the 17 selections in her first short story collection are as intricate and witty as her novels....
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Laura Lippman, Author . Morrow $24.95 (325p) ISBN 978-0-0611-2887-5
Hollywood comes to Baltimore in bestseller Lippman's assured 10th PI Tess Monaghan caper (after 2006's No Good Deeds
). When Tess literally stumbles onto the set of Mann of Steel
, a big-budget TV miniseries shooting in her neighborhood,...
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Laura Lippman, Author . Morrow $24.95 (376p) ISBN 978-0-06-112885-1
Edgar-winner Lippman, author of the Tess Monaghan mystery series (No Good Deeds
, etc.), shows she's as good as Peter Abrahams and other A-list thriller writers with this outstanding stand-alone. A driver who flees a car accident on a Maryland...
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Laura Lippman, Author . Morrow $24.95 (343p) ISBN 978-0-06-057072-9
Smartly plotted and paced, Lippman's ninth Tess Monaghan novel (after By a Spider's Thread
) opens with a somewhat unlikely scenario: Tess's boyfriend, Edgar "Crow" Ransome, brings home for the night a homeless teenager, Lloyd,...
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Laura Lippman, Author . Akashic $14.95 (294p) ISBN 978-1-888451-96-2
Mystery fans should relish this taste of Baltimore's seamier side, the eighth volume in Akashic's series showcasing dark tales of crime and place (Brooklyn Noir
, etc.). Editor Lippman offers both a fine introduction and the lead story ("
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Laura Lippman, Author . Morrow $24.95 (388p) ISBN 978-0-06-050667-4
With this engrossing mystery/suspense stand-alone novel, Lippman, winner of the Edgar, Shamus and Agatha awards for her series featuring likable heroine Tess Monaghan (Baltimore Blues; Charm City; The Last Place) solidifies her position in the upper
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Laura Lippman, Author . Morrow $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-380-97818-2
Edgar, Shamus, Anthony and Agatha award winner Lippman (Charm City; Butchers Hill; The Sugar House) pays homage to the inventor of the mystery form in this masterly contemporary mystery, set in Baltimore and replete with her trademark dry, sardonic...
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Laura Lippman, read by Linda Emond. HarperAudio, , unabridged, nine CDs, 10.5 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-0-06-226525-8
Lippman’s latest crime novel begins as more of a family drama, focusing on shady businessman Felix Brewer. The story opens as Felix flees suburban Maryland to escape the law, leaving behind his wife, Bambi; three daughters; and a mistress, Julie...
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Laura Lippman, read by Kathleen McInerney and Nicole Poole. HarperAudio, , unabridged, 9 CDs, 10 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-0-06-246665-5
Lippman’s new standalone, set in the affluent Baltimore suburb of Columbia, is a solidly plotted mystery novel wrapped in a devastating study of a family’s fall from grace. When the book’s heroine, local prosecutor Luisa “Lu” Brant, begins an...
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Laura Lippman, Author, Linda Emond, Read by , read by Linda Emond. HarperAudio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-125655-4
Emond sounds more than a little like Laura Linney, and her plainspoken, occasionally whispery reading of Lippman’s disturbing novel of buried secrets often brings the acclaimed actress to mind. Lippman’s novel shuttles back and forth...
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Laura Lippman, Author, Linda Emond, Read by HarperAudio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-073861-7
Tess Monaghan is back. After last year's haunting standalone novel Every Secret Thing, Lippman returns with her eighth installment in an award-winning crime series. This time out the determined reporter-turned-private detective agrees to help a...
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Laura Lippman, Author, Linda Emond, Read by , read by Linda Emond. HarperAudio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-089793-2
Emond has played some amazing characters in the past; her brilliant performance in Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul
won her an Obie Award. But she is mismatched for No Good Deeds
. Lippman's new crime novel commences with a prologue by Crow,...
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Laura Lippman, read by Linda Emond. HarperAudio, unabridged, nine CDs, 11 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-0-06-209785-9
When a fatal car accident—that may or may not have been a suicide—claims the life of Gordon Halloran, an alcoholic, it rips opens forgotten emotional wounds as the friends he left behind are forced to revisit old traumas and an awful lie they all...
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Laura Lippman, Author, Linda Emond, Read by . Morrow $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-078492-8
The trouble with writing the Tess Monaghan mysteries is that fans want more, more, more. Lippman scored big with her 2003 stand-alone, Every Secret Thing
, but this one doesn't pack the same punch. Here's Baltimore—outlying Glendale,...
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Laura Lippman. Morrow, $26.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-238992-3
Set in Delaware in 1995, this scorching tale of the gray area between betrayal, lust, and murder from Edgar-winner Lippman (Wilde Lake) will resonate with fans of James M. Cain’s The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity. When Polly...
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Laura Lippman. Morrow, $26.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-239001-1
Set in 1960s Baltimore, this smoldering standalone from Edgar winner Lippman (Sunburn) trails Madeline Schwartz, an affluent 37-year-old Jewish housewife who separates from her husband after dinner with an old classmate reminds her that she once had
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Laura Lippman. HarperCollins, $28.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-299733-3
Self-awareness, a knack for observation, and a dose of snark fuel the uneven but occasionally potent debut collection from Edgar Award–winning crime novelist Lippman (The Lady in the Lake). As Lippman explains, “There is a sense of liberation in...
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Laura Lippman. Morrow, $28.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-239007-3
Successful novelist Gerry Andersen, the protagonist of this delicious literary thriller from Edgar winner Lippman (Lady in the Lake), has moved to Baltimore from New York to be near his ailing mother. He has barely settled into his duplex penthouse...
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Laura Lippman. Morrow, $26.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-300003-2
Bestseller Lippman (Dream Girl) displays her uncanny understanding of human nature and all its foibles in this worthy collection of 12 stories involving deceit, violence, and psychological mayhem. In the edgy “Slow Burner,” a married couple, Liz and
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Laura Lippman. Morrow, $30 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-299806-4
This gripping thriller from Lippman (Dream Girl) centers on the codependent relationships between the charming Joe Simpson and the women trapped in his orbit. Prom night 1997 at Baltimore’s Towson High School ends in the shocking death of a newborn...
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Laura Lippman. Morrow, $30 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-299810-1
Lippman (Prom Mom) triumphs with this charming mystery featuring Muriel Blossom, a Baltimore widow—and former assistant to PI Tess Monaghan, star of another Lippman series—who finds an $8 million lottery ticket abandoned in a parking lot. In the...
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Laura Lippman, illus. by Kate Samworth. Black Sheep, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-61775-661-0
In crime writer Lippman’s picture book debut, Liza Jane’s parents tell her every day that she’s a lucky girl. She does have a bed with a canopy, a fish, stars on her bedroom ceiling, and six princess dresses in her dress-up box. Even with plenty to...
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