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Laura Lippman
A stunning, multi-voiced, period piece - tackling race, gender politics, and the volatility of mid ‘60s America - from one of today’s most interesting crime writing voices.
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SOON TO BE A MAJOR APPLE TV+ SERIES STARRING NATALIE PORTMAN: A stunning, multi-voiced, period piece - tackling race, gender politics, and the volatility of mid '60s America - from…
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Meet Polly, which may or may not be her real name, this year’s most dangerous leading lady…
A terrible crime committed by two ten-year-old girls seven years ago continues to haunt everyone involved–especially now that the girls are about to be released. A spine-tingler that resonates with…
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"Well-plotted, well-written, clear-eyed. I never saw the end coming. There's a hell of a one-two punch waiting for you." --Stephen King
New York Times bestseller Laura Lippman's latest mesmerizing thriller…
In the comfortable suburb where she lives, Heloise is just a mom, the youngish widow with a forgettable job who somehow never misses her son’s soccer games or school plays.
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From the New York Times bestselling author, a psychological thriller about a writer whose dream girl may just have come back to haunt him.
Luisa Brant has just been elected State’s Attorney, a job her revered father once held, and is prosecuting her first murder, by a homeless man on a woman to whom…
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When Felix Brewer meets nineteen-year-old Bernadette ‘Bambi’ Gottschalk at a Valentine’s Dance in 1959, he charms her with wild promises, some of which he actually keeps. Thanks to his lucrative…
New York Times Bestseller
Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman’s Tess Monaghan–first introduced in the classic Baltimore Blues–becomes involved in a complicated investigation that will force her…
Eliza Benedict’s past returns to haunt her when the serial killer she escaped from as a young girl walks back into her life. The new nail-shredding novel from New York…
No one is quite who he or she seems. Hush Hush is the story of Melisandre - rich, beautiful, possibly insane - who has to live with the knowledge of…
Years ago, they were all the best of friends. But as time passed, they grew apart, and began to forget about the past–and the terrible lie they all shared. Could…
From the New York Times -bestselling creator of the Tess Monaghan series comes a pulse-pounding, stand-alone mystery in which a disoriented woman claims to be one of two sisters abducted…
For the first time together in one volume, a mix of award-winning short stories and a new novella from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author, including the Edgar nominated…
A novel of psychological suspense about a pair of lovers with the best intentions and the worst luck: two people locked in a passionate yet uncompromising game of cat and…
[A] novel set in 1960s Baltimore that combines modern psychological insights with elements of classic noir, about a middle-aged housewife turned aspiring reporter who pursues the murder of a forgotten…
Bestselling author of the acclaimed standalones ‘After I’m Gone’; ‘I’d Know You Anywhere’; and ‘What the Dead Know’; challenges our notions of memory, loyalty, responsibility, and justice in this evocative…
New York Times bestseller Laura Lippman tells the story…
Newspaperwoman-turned-P.I. Tess Monaghan is asked by new client Ruthie to investigate the year-old murder of a runaway Jane Doe after Ruthie’s brother, who confessed to the murder, turns up killed…
The first essay collection from the acclaimed crime novelist, a candid portrait of a life lived unapologetically.
From one of America’s greatest living crime writers, a razor-sharp collection of killer short stories, in a gorgeous hardback edition.
A mystery story, in which Queenpin Laura Lippman and cohorts dissect their city with a vengeance.
This brilliant stand-alone novel from a New York Times -bestselling author tells the story of a suburban madam, a convicted murderer whose sentence is about to be overturned, and the…
In a suspenseful collection of stories featuring fierce women–including one never-before-published novella–New York Times bestseller Laura Lippman showcases why she is one of today’s top crime writers –
Natalie Rubin, middle-class Jewish wife and mother, has vanished. Worse, she has taken her three children with her. Her husband Mark is devastated. He approaches Baltimore PI Tess Monaghan to…
Past and present, truth and memory collide in this searing novel from the award-winning, New York Times -bestselling author.
A new novel in the acclaimed Tess Monaghan series by the Sunday Times bestselling author of SUNBURN.
Includes excerpts from And when she was good, and The most dangerous thing.
Former reporter and Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan is hired by the Baltimore Beacon-Light to find the unknown hacker who sneaked a muck-raking story about local business tycoon Wink Wynkowski onto…
Includes P.S. insights, interviews & more.
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…
It was a case Tess turned down - but now she’s caught up in a web of obsession and murder …
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When Felix Brewer meets nineteen-year-old Bernadette ‘Bambi’ Gottschalk at a dance in 1959, he charms her with wild promises. But on the Fourth of July, 1976, Bambi’s world implodes when…
Some of the seemingly happiest families have the darkest secrets… A superbly tense thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of SUNBURN and LADY IN THE LAKE.
Collects the author’s recent essays exploring motherhood as an older mom, her life as a reader, her relationships with her parents, her newspaper career, and her experiences as a novelist.
