Baltimore Blues (Tess Monaghan Mysteries)
by Laura Lippman
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Author: Laura LippmanEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1997-02-01
ISBN: 0380788756
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Avon
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- ISBN13: 9780380788750
- Condition: New
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Book Review: Smart, funny, great character, great city, good mystery
Summary: 5 Stars
The worst part about this book is it made me nostalgic for home. Having grown up in Baltimore, but now gone for 30 years, Lippman's descriptions of neighborhoods, downtown, accents, and Ft. McHenry (home of the Star Spangled Banner--as Tess repeatedly notes), brought back great memories.
Tess is an unemployed reporter, living with her aging hippie aunt, having an affair with a still employed reporter, and pouring her heart into rowing (it is nice to see a detective type who stays in shape doing something other than running or lifting weights!). She agrees to help a friend, by snooping on his fiancée to see if she's cheating on him. But, of course, things get complicated, and Tess ends up in the middle of a three ring murder mysteries (two, actually), which implicate some of the most powerful families in the City.
All this, while keeping up her exercise, having a second affair, delving into far too many people's lives for her own good, a visit to Maryland's death row, at least two attempts on her own life, and seeing her lover killed before her very eyes.
Lippman keeps us moving along, has great twists and turns, and yet keeps us laughing all the way. I can't wait to read the whole series--but I may just have to work in a trip back "home" to Baltimore!
Summary of Baltimore Blues (Tess Monaghan Mysteries)
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 Abramowitz's death should be just another statistic. But the slain lawyer's notoriety -- and his noontime trysts with Rock's fiancee -- make the case front page news...and points to Rock as the likely murderer. But trying to prove her friend's innocence couls prove costly to Tess -- and add her name to that infamous ever-growing list.
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