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In trying to prove a friend’s innocence PI Tess Monaghan gets more than she bargained for . . .
Until her newspaper, The Baltimore Star, crashed, Tess Monaghan was a first-rate reporter who knew her home town intimately – from historic Fort McHenry to the crumbling projects of Cherry Hill. Now gainfully unemployed at 29 she’s willing to do any freelance job to pay the rent – including a bit of unorthodox snooping for her rowing buddy Darryl ‘Rock’ Paxton.
In a city where someone is murdered almost every day, attorney Michael Abramowitz’s death should be just another statistic. But the lawyer’s notoriety, and his trysts with Rock’s fiancée, make the case front page news – and make Rock the chief suspect …
Until her newspaper, The Baltimore Star, crashed, Tess Monaghan was a first-rate reporter who knew her home town intimately – from historic Fort McHenry to the crumbling projects of Cherry Hill. Now gainfully unemployed at 29 she’s willing to do any freelance job to pay the rent – including a bit of unorthodox snooping for her rowing buddy Darryl ‘Rock’ Paxton.
In a city where someone is murdered almost every day, attorney Michael Abramowitz’s death should be just another statistic. But the lawyer’s notoriety, and his trysts with Rock’s fiancée, make the case front page news – and make Rock the chief suspect …
Reviews
One of the best novelists around, period
Every time Laura Lippman comes out with a new book, I get chills because I know I am back in the hands of the master. She is simply a brilliant novelist, an unflinching chronicler of life in America right now
Lippman is the closest writer America has to Ruth Rendell
Mystery fans can anticipate an engrossing series
Laura Lippman continues to push the envelope of modern crime-writing
One of America's most important literary voices
Lippman has enriched literature as a whole
[Lippman] only seems to be getting better
Lippman is a writing powerhouse
Laura Lippman is among the select group of novelists who have invigorated the crime fiction arena with smart, innovative and exciting work
