Laura Lippman
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The friendship between Glendale High School students Josie, Perri, and Kat, inseparable since third grade, is severed forever when a tragic shooting on the last day of school leaves one of them dead, one of them with a near-fatal injury, and one not willing to tell what really happened.
23) Baltimore blues
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"In a city where someone is murdered almost everyday, attorney Michael Abramowitz's death should be just another statistic. But the slain lawyer's notoriety --and his taste for illicit midday trysts -- make the case front page news in every local paper except the Star, which crashed and burned before Abramowitz did. A former Star reporter who knows every inch of this town, now-unemployed journalist Tess Monaghan also knows the guy the cops like for...
24) The sugar house
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"When Tess Monaghan agrees to talk to Ruthie Dembrow, she senses she'll regret it. If there's anything Tess has learned in her work both as a newspaper reporter and then as a PI, it's to trust her instincts. Still, she can't deny she's intrigued when Ruthie asks her to investigate the fatal stabbing of her brother, Henry, while he was locked away for murdering a teenage runaway over a bottle of glue. Henry's death at the hands of fellow convicts doesn't...
25) Butcher's Hill
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When the production of a Hollywood film in Baltimore brings mayhem and murder to the area, private investigator Tess Monaghan finds her job complicated by the acting skills of her numerous suspects.
26) CHARM CITY
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When a lurid exposé mysteriously appears on the front page of the Baltimore Beacon-Light and causes a business tycoon to commit suicide in his garage, private investigator Tess Monaghan takes on the case.
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PI Tess Monaghan thought she'd seen the last of her ex-boyfriend Ed Crow when they ended their relationship. But when she receives a newspaper clipping with a photo of Crow and the headline "IN BIG TROUBLE," she's reluctantly pulled into looking for him and heads to Austin, Texas -- the last place he was seen. Searching the house where Crow was staying, Tess stumbles on more than she bargained for when she finds the body of an ex-convict whose face...
28) The last place
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When New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan investigates five cold case murders, she doesn't expect the investigation to become personal...
Tess Monaghan agrees to look into a series of unsolved homicides that date back over the past six years despite the fact that the assignment originates from a troubling source: wealthy Baltimore benefactor Luisa O'Neal, who was both instrumental in launching Tess's
...29) The Book Thing
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A thief targets a local bookstore and it will take a bibliophile PI to save the shop.
Tess Monaghan wants to like the Children's Bookstore. It's bright, cozy, and packed with the kinds of books that she is dying for her daughter to fall in love with. But no matter how badly she wants to support this adorable local business, the owner's attitude stops her in her tracks. What kind of children's bookseller hates children? What's eating Octavia,...
Tess Monaghan wants to like the Children's Bookstore. It's bright, cozy, and packed with the kinds of books that she is dying for her daughter to fall in love with. But no matter how badly she wants to support this adorable local business, the owner's attitude stops her in her tracks. What kind of children's bookseller hates children? What's eating Octavia,...
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"Nancy Harmon long ago fled the heartbreak of her first marriage, the macabre deaths of her two little children, and the shocking charges against her. She changed her name, dyed her hair, and left California for the wind-swept peace of Cape Cod. Now remarried, she has two more beloved children and the terrible pain has begun to heal--until the morning when she looks in the backyard for her little boy and girl and finds only one red mitten. She knows...
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On January 10, 1999, a mobster walked into a psychiatrist's office and changed TV history. By shattering preconceptions about the kinds of stories the medium should tell, The Sopranos launched our current age of prestige television, paving the way for such giants as Mad Men, The Wire, Breaking Bad, and Game of Thrones. As TV critics for Tony Soprano's hometown paper, New Jersey's The Star-Ledger, Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz were among the...
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"Liza Jane believed she could find better parents. So she fired her mom and dad and hired the first applicant who came to the door-a dragon. Cool. Dragons like pizza. So does Liza Jane. But this dragon only has one solution to every problems. And it's NOT cool. In fact, it's pretty HOT."--Page [4] of cover.
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In a small upstate New York town, two 11-year-old girls from opposite sides of the tracks are convicted of murdering an infant and sentenced to juvenile detention facilities. But when a toddler goes missing seven years later, Detective Nancy Porter begins to suspect recently released Ronnie and Alice. As the investigation deepens, Porter may discover that the truth can hide the most shocking secrets of all. Diane Lane and Common co-star in this grim,...
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Heaven to Betsy: Betsy Ray is loving every minute of freshman year at Deep Valley High - with new and old friends all around her not to mention boys! But most intriguing of all is the one she and her best friend, Tacy, dub "the Tall, Dark Stranger."--Cover.
Betsy in spite of herself: Betsy is at the center of every activity as a Deep Valley High sophomore - and suddenly, thanks to her old friend, Tib, she's offered a golden opportunity for glorious...
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"En 1959, cuando Felix Brewer conoce a Bernadette Bambi Gottschalk en un baile de San Valentín, ella aún no ha cumplido los veinte. Felix la seduce con promesas, de las que sólo cumplirá algunas. Se casan y, gracias a los lucrativos negocios de él--no del todo legales en ocasiones--Bambi y sus tres pequeñas hijas viven en medio del lujo. Pero el 4 de julio de 1976 ese mundo confortable se derrumba cuando Felix, amenazado con ir a la cárcel,...
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"En 1975, las hermanas Bethany, de once y quince años, desaparecieron en un centro comercial. Nunca regresaron, sus cuerpos nunca fueron encontrados y cientos de preguntas quedaron sin respuesta: ¿cómo pudieron secuestrar a dos niñas en un centro comercial atestado?, ¿quién o qué consiguió atraerlas sin dejar ningún rastro? Treinta años después, una extraña mujer que se ha visto envuelta en un accidente de tráfico asegura ser la pequeña...