Laura Lippman
1) 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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"Mark Rubin's family is missing - and the police won't get involved because all the evidence indicates that his wife left willingly. So the successful Baltimore furrier turns to Tess Monaghan, hoping she can help him find his wife and three children. Tess doesn't quite know what to make of Rubin, who doles out vitally important information in grudging dribs and drabs. According to her client, he and his beautiful wife, Natalie, had a flawless, happy...
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2003]
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English
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Seven years after inadvertently causing a death while walking home from a party, estranged friends Alice and Ronnie are forced to confront the truth about what happened when another child goes missing under similar circumstances.
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Tess Monaghan volume 9
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Morrow
Pub. Date
2005.
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English
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There are excellent reasons why New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has won the Edgar�, Agatha, Anthony, Nero Wolfe, and every other major award the mystery genre has to offer. To the Power of Three is just one of those reasons. Lippman's brilliant and disturbing tale of three inseparable high school girlfriends in an affluent Baltimore suburb who share dark secrets literally until death, To the Power of Three is this "writing powerhouse"...
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Black Sheep / Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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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.
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--what could...
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The award-winning master of psychological suspense is in top form in this collection of diverse and diabolically clever stories - including one never-before-published novella. These brilliantly crafted stories of deception, murder, dangerous games, and love gone wrong - irrefutable evidence that Laura Lippman's riveting fiction will more than satisfy any crime reader.
"In a suspenseful collection of stories featuring fierce women--including one never-before-published...
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Akashic Books
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English
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Brand-new stories by: David Simon, Laura Lippman, Tim Cockey, Rob Hiaasen, Robert Ward, Sujata Massey, Jack Bludis, Rafael Alvarez, Marcia Talley, Joseph Wallace, Lisa Respers France, Charlie Stella, Sarah Weinman, Dan Fesperman, Jim Fusilli, and Ben Neihart. -- from Amazon.
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Tess Monaghan mysteries volume 1
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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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...
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Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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A mobster walked into a psychiatrist's office ... No, it wasn't the start of a joke: it was the start of a program that changed TV history. By shattering preconceptions about the kinds of stories the medium should tell, The Sopranos launched our current age of prestige television. Television critics Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz were among the first to write about the series before it became a cultural phenomenon. To celebrate the twentieth...
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HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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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...
14) D.C. noir
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Akashic Books
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English
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Mystery sensation Pelecanos pens the lead story and edits this groundbreaking collection of stories detailing the seedy underside of the nation's capital. This is not an anthology of ill-conceived and inauthentic political thrillers. Instead, pimps, whores, gangsters, and con-men run rampant in zones of this city that most never hear about.
15) New Orleans noir
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Akashic Books
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English
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"Julie Smith and cohorts divulge the dark secrets of a city traumatized long before the storm. New Orleans is a Third World country in itself, a Latin, African, European (and often amoral) culture trapped in a puritan nation. It's everyone's seamy underside, the city where respectable citizens go to get drunk, puke in the gutter, dance on tabletops, and go home with strangers, all without guilt. It's the metropolitan equivalent of eating standing...
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The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"The oldest mystery bookstore in the world, The Mysterious Bookshop, has for most of its forty-five-year history commissioned an original short story as a holiday gift for its customers, written exclusively for the store and never published elsewhere--before now. The prompt for the story requires three elements: that it be set at Christmastime, that it involve a crime of some kind, or the suspicion of one, and that it be set at least partially in...
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