Description: Tess Monaghan gets a newspaper photograph of her old boyfriend, accompanied by the headline "In Big Trouble." The answers lie far from Baltimore, deep in a world of good-time music, ambition, and rich people's games. Tess must find out what happened to a man she thought she knew, to a woman who may have changed him forever, and to the victims of a killer.
Brief description:
Since Laura Lippman's debut, she has been recognized as a distinctive voice in mystery fiction and named one of the "essential" crime writers of the last 100 years. Stephen King called her "special, even extraordinary," and Gillian Flynn wrote, "She is simply a brilliant novelist." Her books have won most of the major awards in her field and been translated into more than twenty-five languages. She lives in Baltimore and New Orleans with her teenager.
Review Quotes:
Praise for Laura Lippman: "Lippman is a writing powerhouse." - USA Today
"She's one of the best novelists around, period." - Washington Post
"I love her books." - Harlan Coben
"I never miss Laura Lippman's novels." - Anna Quindlen, New York Times bestselling author
"Lippman has enriched literature as a whole." - Chicago Sun-Times
"A writer at the peak of her powers." - Washington Post
"Lippman is a writing powerhouse." - USA Today