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Biographical note
Before becoming a full-time novelist, Laura Lippman was a newspaper reporter for many years. She has won just about every crime writing award going, including the Anthony Award and non genre awards for Literary Excellence. She lives in Baltimore with her partner, the writer David Simon, and their daughter.Wonderful ... A moving ... feast of a book
WASHINGTON POST
If Lippman has her way, Baltimore will be a strange city no longer, but the delight of readers from there to San Diego
KIRKUS
Edgar, Shamus, Anthony and Agatha award winner Lippman (Charm City; Butchers Hill; The Sugar House) pays homage to the inventor of the mystery form in this masterly contemporary mystery, set in Baltimore and replete with her trademark dry, sardonic wit ...Lippman shows in this, her sixth novel, that she's indeed deserving of all the kudos she's received
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY starred review
One of the most polished and consistently interesting writers of detective fiction today
THE ECONOMIST
Lippman is a writing powerhouse
USA TODAY
Every time Laura Lippman comes out with a new book, I get chills because I know I am back in the hands of the master. She is simply a brilliant novelist, an unflinching chronicler of life in America right now
- Gillian Flynn,
Lippman is the closest writer America has to Ruth Rendell
- Stephen King,
Lippman has enriched literature as a whole
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
Laura Lippman continues to push the envelope of modern crime-writing
- Harlan Coben,
Laura Lippman is among the select group of novelists who have invigorated the crime fiction arena with smart, innovative, and exciting work
- George Pelecanos,