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(0)Laura Lippman
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Series
Tess Monaghan mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Description
Until her paper, the Baltimore Star, crashed and burned, Tess Monaghan was a damn good reporter who knew her hometown intimately - from historic Fort McHenry to the crumbling projects of Cherry Hill. Now gainfully unemployed at twenty-nine, she's willing to take 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 everyday, attorney Michael...
Author
Language
English
Description
Past and present, truth and memory collide in this searing novel from a New York Times bestselling author whose novels have won virtually every major prize bestowed for crime fiction-from the Edgar® to the Anthony to the Agatha to the Nero Wolfe Award. As she did in her blockbuster What the Dead Know, Lippman takes a brief hiatus from her popular series character, Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan, to tell a riveting story of deceptions and dangerously...
Author
Language
English
Description
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. Not merely crime fiction, but fiction that gets...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Join the world of New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan in the Shamus and Anthony Award-winning fourth book in the acclaimed series. In Big Trouble Tess Monaghan has learned the hard way how to survive on the streets of Baltimore-first as a fearless investigative reporter and lately as a PI. But a new case is about to take her way out of her element. What begins with a tantalizing shard of a newspaper headline-"In Big Trouble"-above...
Author
Series
Tess Monaghan mysteries volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan must solve one of the most baffling murders in her PI career. 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 your instincts. Still, she can't deny she's intrigued when Ruthie asks her to investigate the fatal stabbing of her brother, Henry, while...
Author
Publisher
Black Sheep / Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
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 possibly go wrong? And at first everything was fun. The dragon did whatever Liza Jane wanted him to do. But it turned out the dragon had only one response to all problems--opening his mouth and belching fire. Suddenly, people were scared of Liza Jane. The pizza delivery man didn't want to come to her house....
Author
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2009
Language
Español
Description
"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...