Book 2

Charm City

by Laura Lippman

Published 1 October 1997

It's murder in Baltimore these days - and Tess herself might be next on the list . . . From the author of LADY IN THE LAKE and SUNBURN
Winner of Edgar Award and Shamus Award

As a practised reporter until her newspaper went to that great pressroom in the sky,...

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Book 3

Butchers Hill

by Laura Lippman

Published 1 July 1998
Starting an official business as a private investigator for hire, Tess Monaghan helps a repentant vigilante who wants to make amends to a group of teens who witnessed his shooting of a boy five years earlier, an effort that is complicated when someone begins killing the witnesses.

Baltimore Blues

by Laura Lippman

Published 1 February 1997

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....

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In Big Trouble

by Laura Lippman

Published 1 September 1999

For PI Tess Monaghan secrets from the past can be murder . . . From the author of SUNBURN and LADY IN THE LAKE
Winner of the Edgar and Shamus awards

First as a reporter and then as a PI Tess Monaghan has learned how to survive and thrive on the...

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Hush Hush

by Laura Lippman

Published 1 February 2015
On a searing August day, Melisandre Harris Dawes committed the unthinkable: she left her two-month-old daughter locked in a car while she sat nearby on the shores of the Patapsco River. Melisandre was found not guilty by reason of criminal insanity, although there was much skepticism about her mental...Read more

No Good Deeds

by Laura Lippman

Published 27 June 2006
A Tess Monoghan Novel. The unsolved murder of a young federal prosecutor is nothing more than a theoretical problems one of several cases to be deconstructed in her new gig as a consultant to the local newspaper. But it becomes all to tangible when her boyfriend brings home a...Read more

The Last Place

by Laura Lippman

Published 1 October 2002
Tess's case in this terrific novel is a series of unsolved homicides that may or may not be overlooked cases of domestic violence. After a while, Tess realises she's on the trail of a single, serial killer. But the Maryland State Police are convinced that the killer she's looking...Read more

In a Strange City

by Laura Lippman

Published 4 September 2001

'A plot worthy of Poe himself. Splendid entertainment.' Guardian

'One of the best crime novelists writing today.' TESS GERRITSEN

'An homage to the city of Baltimore.' Booklist

A TESS MONAGHAN MYSTERY

Three red roses and a half-empty bottle of cognac have been left on the grave of...

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Another Thing to Fall

by Laura Lippman

Published 11 March 2008
When private eye Tess Monaghan finds herself literally on a collision course with the makers of a TV series being shot in her native Baltimore, it's not only her introduction to the surreal world of televison drama, but also the beginning of a case that only a crazed scriptwriter...Read more

No Good Deeds CD

by Laura Lippman

Published 27 June 2006