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In 1966, Baltimore is a city of secrets that everyone seems to know—everyone, that is, except Madeline “Maddie” Schwartz. Last year, she was a happy, even pampered housewife. This year, she’s bolted from her marriage, determined to leave her mark on a swiftly changing world. Working at the Star newspaper offers Maddie the opportunity to make her name, and she has found just the story to do it: a missing woman whose body was discovered in a cit...

Trade paperback. In volatile mid-sixties America, a black woman's disappearance is met with police disinterest. Meanwhile, a new reporter at the Baltimore "Sun" sets out to make her name by uncovering the story behind an unidentified body being pulled from a fountain - a story the powers-that-be would rather remained untold.

They meet at a local tavern in the small town of Belleville, Delaware. Polly is set on heading west. Adam says he’s also just passing through. Yet she stays. And he stays—drawn to the mysterious redhead whose quiet stillness both unnerves and excites him. Over the course of a punishing summer, Polly and Adam abandon themselves to a steamy, inexorable affair. Still, each holds something back from the other—dangerous, even lethal, secrets.Then s...

Il giornale presso cui lavorava ha chiuso i battenti da un paio di anni e da allora Tess Monaghan, non vive certo uno dei suoi momenti migliori. Senza lavoro e senza sussidio di disoccupazione, trascorre il tempo andandosene a vogare la mattina al Circolo di Canottaggio e a correre la sera per le strade di una Baltimora che non se la passa bene nemmeno lei, col suo triste record di un omicidio al giorno. Tess ha incontrato, nelle acque del Cir...

New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman returns with a superb 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 mouse. But instead of rules, this game has dark secrets, forbidden desires, inevitable betrayals—and cold-blooded murder.One is playing a long game. But which one?They meet at a local tavern in the small town...

One is playing a long game. But which one?They meet at a local tavern in the small town of Belleville, Delaware. Polly is set on heading west. Adam says he’s also just passing through. Yet she stays. And he stays—drawn to the mysterious redhead whose quiet stillness both unnerves and excites him. Over the course of a punishing summer, Polly and Adam abandon themselves to a steamy, inexorable affair. Still, each holds something back from the ot...

This picture book debut from award-winning, "New York Times"-bestselling crime fiction author Lippman offers a timely parable about family values, a little girl, and a dragon. Full color.

Reminiscent of Anne Tyler and James M. Cain, "Sunburn" features a remarkable heroine in Polly, who abandons her former life - having perhaps done similar in the past - with shadowy figures always interested in her whereabouts.

Charm City": così è chiamata Baltimora negli Stati Uniti, la città affascinante. E Baltimora è davvero una "Charm City", ma per criminologi, poliziotti e detective, visto l'alto numero di omicidi all'anno che registra. Tess Monaghan, ex reporter, diventata detective per caso non ha di che lamentarsi. Lavora a tempo pieno per un avvocato, vive col fidanzato, Crow, nell'appartamento sopra alla libreria di sua zia Kitty, e i casi da risolvere non...

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Inspired by James M. Cain's masterpieces "The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, " and "Mildred Pierce, New York Times"-bestselling author Lippman returns with a tantalizing modern noir about a pair of lovers with the best intentions and the worst luck.

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When Felix Brewer meets nineteen-year-old Bernadette "Bambi" Gottschalk in 1959, he charms her with wild promises, some of which he actually keeps. Thanks to his lucrative—if not all legal—businesses, she and their three little girls live in luxury. But in 1976, Bambi's comfortable world implodes when Felix, facing prison, vanishes. Though Bambi has no idea where her husband—or his money—might be, she suspects one woman does: his devoted young...

New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman spins a spellbinding novel of suspense in which PI Tess Monaghan must turn to the past to solve a murder in the present. . . .PI Tess Monaghan thought she'd seen the last of her ex-boyfriend Ed Crow when they ended their relationship. But when she receives a newspaper clipping with a photo of Crow and the headline "IN BIG TROUBLE, " she's reluctantly pulled into looking for him and heads to Austi...

No sooner has Tess Monaghan hung her p.i.-for-hire shingle outside her new office on Butchers Hill when in walks Luther Beale. The notorious vigilante who shot a boy for vandalizing his car five years ago, Luther has just gotten out of prison and wants to make amends, he says, to the kids who witnessed his crime. He needs to find them first, and that’s where Tess comes in.But once she starts snooping, the witnesses start dying. Like it or not,...

Reporter-turned-p.i. Tess Monaghan loves every inch of her native Baltimore—a quirky city where baseball reigns, and homicide seems to be the second most popular sport. Business tycoon “Wink” Wynkowski wants to change all of that by bringing pro-basketball back to town—a laudable mission that’s greeted with widespread cheers . . . and a muckraking front page exposé of his past in the Baltimore Beacon-Light. The “Blight’s” surprised editors are...

Dead is dead. Missing is gone . . . When Felix Brewer vanishes on July 4, 1976, to avoid serving a fifteen-year prison sentence for mail fraud, he leaves behind five devastated women: his sophisticated wife, Bambi, their three lovely daughters, and his devoted young mistress, Julie. Though Bambi has no idea where her husband or his money might be, she suspects his mistress does. When Julie disappears ten years to the day after Felix went on th...

On a searing August day, Melisandre Harris Dawes left her infant daughter locked in a car while she sat nearby on the shores of the Patapsco River. Melisandre was found not guilty by reason of criminal insanity, although there was much skepticism about her mental state. Freed, she left the country, her husband and her two surviving children, determined to start over.Now Melisandre has returned to Baltimore to meet with her estranged teenage da...

When Felix Brewer meets Bernadette "Bambi" Gottschalk in 1959, he charms her with wild promises, some of which he actually keeps. Thanks to his lucrative—if not all legal—businesses, she and their three little girls live in luxury. But in July 1976, Bambi's world implodes when Felix, facing prison, vanishes.Though Bambi has no idea where her husband—or his money—might be, she suspects one woman does: his mistress, Julie. When Julie disappears ...

The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Most Dangerous Thing, I'd Know You Anywhere, and What the Dead Know returns with an addictive story that explores how one man's disappearance echoes through the lives of the five women he left behind—his wife, his daughters, and his mistressDead is dead. Missing is gone.When Felix Brewer meets nineteen-year-old Bernadette "Bambi" Gottschalk at a Valentine's Day dance in 1959, he charms her...