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Laura Lippman
[A] novel set in 1960s Baltimore that combines modern psychological insights with elements of classic noir, about a middle-aged housewife turned aspiring reporter who pursues the murder of a forgotten…
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New York Times bestseller Laura Lippman's latest mesmerizing thriller tells the story of Amber Glass, desperately trying to escape her tabloid past but compulsively drawn back into a game of…
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‘As five we were mighty, the points on a star…Once we five joined, it was never boys against girls…Two of our triangles cut themselves off and ran away together, and…
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Eliza Benedict’s past returns to haunt her when the serial killer she escaped from as a young girl walks back into her life. The new nail-shredding novel from New York…
From the New York Times -bestselling creator of the Tess Monaghan series comes a pulse-pounding, stand-alone mystery in which a disoriented woman claims to be one of two sisters abducted…
When Felix Brewer meets nineteen-year-old Bernadette ‘Bambi’ Gottschalk at a Valentine’s Dance in 1959, he charms her with wild promises, some of which he actually keeps. Thanks to his lucrative…
Years ago, they were all the best of friends. But as time passed, they grew apart, and began to forget about the past–and the terrible lie they all shared. Could…
An edgy, utterly gripping tale of psychological manipulation that will leave readers racing to the final page, I’d Know You Anywhere is a virtuoso performance from acclaimed, award-winning author Lippman…
Past and present, truth and memory collide in this searing novel from the award-winning, New York Times -bestselling author.
The first essay collection from the acclaimed crime novelist, a candid portrait of a life lived unapologetically.
It’s murder in Baltimore these days - and Tess herself might be next on the list.
Tess Monaghan gets a newspaper photograph of her old boyfriend, accompanied by the headline In Big Trouble. The answers lie far from Baltimore, deep in a world of good-time music…
A brilliant new stand-alone novel from New York Times -bestselling author Lippman. A suburban madam, a convicted murderer whose sentence is about to be overturned, and the child who they…
No one is quite who he or she seems. Hush Hush is the story of Melisandre - rich, beautiful, possibly insane - who has to live with the knowledge of…
Luisa Brant has just been elected State’s Attorney, a job her revered father once held, and is prosecuting her first murder, by a homeless man on a woman to whom…
From the New York Times bestselling author, a psychological thriller about a writer whose dream girl may just have come back to haunt him.
A mystery story, in which Queenpin Laura Lippman and cohorts dissect their city with a vengeance.
From one of America’s greatest living crime writers, a razor-sharp collection of killer short stories, in a gorgeous hardback edition.
Bestselling author of the acclaimed standalones ‘After I’m Gone’; ‘I’d Know You Anywhere’; and ‘What the Dead Know’; challenges our notions of memory, loyalty, responsibility, and justice in this evocative…
New York Times bestseller Laura Lippman tells the story of Amber Glass, desperately trying to get away from her tabloid past but compulsively drawn back to the city of her…
Natalie Rubin, middle-class Jewish wife and mother, has vanished. Worse, she has taken her three children with her. Her husband Mark is devastated. He approaches Baltimore PI Tess Monaghan to…
A new novel in the acclaimed Tess Monaghan series by the Sunday Times bestselling author of SUNBURN.
This brilliant stand-alone novel from a New York Times -bestselling author tells the story of a suburban madam, a convicted murderer whose sentence is about to be overturned, and the…
Includes excerpts from And when she was good, and The most dangerous thing.
Tess Monaghan is willing to take any freelance job to pay the rent–including a bit of unorthodox snooping for her rowing buddy, Darryl Rock Paxton. But trying to prove her…
A novel of psychological suspense about a pair of lovers with the best intentions and the worst luck: two people locked in a passionate yet uncompromising game of cat and…
Bedridden after a freak accident, a novelist begins to question his own sanity as he moves through dreamlike memories of his own fictional characters.
Former reporter and Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan is hired by the Baltimore Beacon-Light to find the unknown hacker who sneaked a muck-raking story about local business tycoon Wink Wynkowski onto…
Includes P.S. insights, interviews & more.
It was a case Tess turned down - but now she’s caught up in a web of obsession and murder …
P.S. insights, interviews & more –Cover.
New York Times Bestseller
Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman’s Tess Monaghan–first introduced in the classic Baltimore Blues–becomes involved in a complicated investigation that will force her…
Collects the author’s recent essays exploring motherhood as an older mom, her life as a reader, her relationships with her parents, her newspaper career, and her experiences as a novelist.
In a suspenseful collection of stories featuring fierce women–including one never-before-published novella–New York Times bestseller Laura Lippman showcases why she is one of today’s top crime writers –