In a city where someone is murdered almost every day, attorney Michael Abramowitzâs death should be just another statistic. But the slain lawyerâs notorietyâand his taste for illicit midday trystsâmake the case front-page news in every local paper except the Star, which crashed and burned before Abramowitz did. A former Star reporter who knows every inch of this townâfrom historic Fort McHenry to the crumbling projects of Cherry Hillânow-unemployed journalist Tess Monaghan also knows the guy the cops like for the killing: cuckolded fiance Darryl âRockâ Paxton. The time is ripe for a career moveâanything to pay the rentâso when rowing buddy Rock wants to hire her to do some unorthodox snooping to help clear his name, Tess agrees. But there are lethal secrets hiding in the Charm City shadows, and Tessâ own name could end up on that ever-expanding list of Baltimore dead.
Baltimore Blues: The First Tess Monaghan Novel (The Tess Monaghan Series) - Laura Lippman
In a city where someone is murdered almost every day, attorney Michael Abramowitzâs death should be just another statistic. But the slain lawyerâs notorietyâand his taste for illicit midday trystsâmake the case front-page news in every local paper except the Star, which crashed and burned before Abramowitz did. A former Star reporter who knows every inch of this townâfrom historic Fort McHenry to the crumbling projects of Cherry Hillânow-unemployed journalist Tess Monaghan also knows the guy the cops like for the killing: cuckolded fiance Darryl âRockâ Paxton. The time is ripe for a career moveâanything to pay the rentâso when rowing buddy Rock wants to hire her to do some unorthodox snooping to help clear his name, Tess agrees. But there are lethal secrets hiding in the Charm City shadows, and Tessâ own name could end up on that ever-expanding list of Baltimore dead.