Baltimore Blues

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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 fiancee, make the case front page news - and make Rock the chief suspect ...

Before becoming a full time novelist, Laura Lippman was a newspaper reporter for 20 years. Among Laura's various awards and nominations she won the Anthony Award for EVERY SECRET THING and has now been nominated for the 2005 Edgar Award for BY A SPIDER'S THREAD. Laura Lippman lives in Baltimore.

One of the best novelists around, period * WASHINGTON POST * 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 -- Gillian Flynn Lippman is the closest writer America has to Ruth Rendell -- Stephen King Mystery fans can anticipate an engrossing series * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY * Laura Lippman continues to push the envelope of modern crime-writing -- Harlan Coben One of America's most important literary voices * IRISH TIMES * Lippman has enriched literature as a whole * CHICAGO SUN-TIMES * [Lippman] only seems to be getting better * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY * Lippman is a writing powerhouse * USA TODAY * Laura Lippman is among the select group of novelists who have invigorated the crime fiction arena with smart, innovative and exciting work -- George Pelecanos