Produktdetaljer
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.Laura Lippman is among the select group of novelists who have invigorated the crime fiction arena with smart, innovative, and exciting work
- George Pelecanos,
A gripping mystery
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
One of the most polished and consistently interesting writers of detective fiction today
THE ECONOMIST
Lippman is a writing powerhouse
USA TODAY
Ably demonstrates why Lippman has been sweeping up the American crime awards. A gripping sense of place and a great new sleuthette make this a page-turner
GUARDIAN
One of the best novelists around, period
WASHINGTON POST
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,
Laura Lippman continues to push the envelope of modern crime-writing
- Harlan Coben,
Lippman is the closest writer America has to Ruth Rendell
- Stephen King,
For PI Tess Monaghan secrets from the past can be murder . . . From the author of SUNBURN and LADY IN THE LAKE
Winner of the Edgar and Shamus awards
First as a reporter and then as a PI Tess Monaghan has learned how to survive and thrive on the streets of Baltimore. But a new case will force her to confront her own past - and a man she once loved. It starts when she gets a newspaper photograph of an old boyfriend with part of a headline attached: BIG TROUBLE.
The answer to the mystery lies far from Baltimore, deep in a world of good-time music, old-fashioned ambition and rich people's games. And Tess must find out what happened to the man she once loved and the woman who changed him - and the connection to a series of murders . . .