Pregnant Baltimore PI Tess Monaghan probes the disappearance of a chic blonde green-raincoated dog walker she'd been watching from her comfy prison. Tess also takes in the missing woman's abandoned green-slickered Italian greyhound from hell and unravels a complex scam.
Since the day they met, in a suite at Claridge's four months ago, Harmony had felt as if she were in a circle with a snake charmer, swaying to her tune. It had begun with flattery. Doesn't every seduction?
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 to question her loyalties.
Until her paper, the Baltimore Star, crashed and burned, Tess Monaghan was a damn good reporter who knew her hometown intimately -- from historic Fort McHenry to the crumbling projects of Cherry Hill.
I discovered a new (to me) mystery series. Tess Monaghan is a terrific main character.' 5* reader review 'I really have fallen in love with Tess Monaghan. These mystery novels well deserve the awards Lippman has won.' 5* reader review
He hopes. Praise for The Monkey's Raincoat “Outstanding characters, tight plot, and scintillating prose style. . . . This fast-paced story speeds Elvis Cole to a chilling, heart-stopping ending.”—Mystery Scene “Is Bob Crais good?
From critically acclaimed, multiple-award winner Laura Lippman comes a riveting story of love and murder, guilt and innocence Two little girls banished from a neighborhood birthday party find an abandoned stroller with an infant inside on ...
This is not Tess's world.
Emily is not happy with her new raincoat until she discovers that her wishes come true when she is wearing it. But she soon realises that a magic raincoat can cause problems too. Suggested level: junior, primary.
Which might be why he drinks. Drank. Drinks. No, drank. He's done. Again. One night, one slip. He didn't even enjoy it that much. “You driving?” the bartender asks, piloting him to the door, his arm firm yet kind around Gordon's waist.
Breathtaking in its emotional depth, powerful, provocative, and consistently surprising, Laura Lippman's To the Power of Three carries the crime novel into richer, more fertile territory.