Laura Lippman

Working at Baltimore's afternoon 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 the fountain of a city park lake....

Mrs. Blossom is not the kind of woman to play the lottery. She is practical, a devoted grandmother, and has a knack for blending into the background, which was an asset during her days assisting private investigator Tess Monaghan.

Unemployed at 29, Tess Monaghan is willing to take any freelance job to pay the rent—including a bit of unorthodox snooping for her rowing buddy, Darryl "Rock" Paxton....

First as a reporter and then as a PI, Tess Monaghan has learned how to survive and thrive on the streets of Baltimore....

New York Times best-selling author Laura Lippman returns with a superb novel of psychological suspense about a pair of lovers with the best intentions and the worst luck....

When a murder occurs during the annual visit of a cloaked individual to Edgar Allan Poe's grave, PI Tess Monaghan is drawn into unearthing a killer....

the third trimester of her pregnancy, Baltimore private investigator Tess Monaghan is under doctor's orders to remain immobile....

Mark Rubin's family is missing - and the police won't get involved because all the evidence indicates that his wife left willingly....

Former journalist turned P.I. Tess Monaghan thought she knew Baltimore like the back of her hand - but what she doesn't know just might kill her in this grim yet irresistible novel....

When private investigator Tess Monaghan literally runs into the crew of the fledgling TV series Mann of Steel while sculling, she expects sharp words and evil looks, not an assignment.

Tess agrees to protect the boy's identity no matter what, especially when one of his friends is killed....

On a searing August day, Melisandre Harris Dawes committed the unthinkable: She left her two-month-old daughter locked in a car while she sat nearby on the shores of the Patapsco River....

Tess Monaghan has finally made the move and hung out her shingle as a PI-for-hire, complete with an office in Butchers Hill....

Thirty years ago two sisters disappeared from a shopping mall. Now a clearly disoriented woman involved in a rush-hour hit-and-run claims to be the younger of the long-gone Bethany sisters....

Kicked out of a birthday party, 11-year-olds Alice and Ronnie walk home and encounter a baby left in a carriage....

PI Tess Monaghan knows and loves every inch of her native Baltimore. It's a quirky city where baseball reigns, but lately homicide seems to be the second most popular sport....

In this seventh novel from Lippman's acclaimed series, Baltimore investigator Tess Monaghan has her hands full with five murder cases that have gone cold....

Mark Rubin's family is missing, and the police won't do a thing because all the evidence indicates his wife left willingly....

Author Cassandra Fallows has achieved remarkable success by baring her life on the page....

In the summer of 1985, when she was fifteen, Eliza was kidnapped by Walter and held hostage for almost six weeks....