Another Thing to Fall

After her brilliant stand-alone thriller EVERY SECRET THING, Lippman returns to her series character, PI Tess Monaghan, and her home town of Baltimore. From the author of WILDE LAKE.

Tess didn't want to take on the case in the first place - and now it's getting dangerous - and far too close to home . . . From the author of WILDE LAKE.

It was a case Tess turned down - but now she's caught up in a web of obsession and murder . . . From the author of WILDE LAKE.

Luisa Brant has just been elected State's Attorney, a job her revered father once held, and is prosecuting her first murder, by a homeless man on a woman to whom he had seemingly no connection. However, as Luisa investigates, she is startled to learn that this murder might have its roots in a violent event in the past involving her own family.

No one is quite who he or she seems. Hush Hush is the story of Melisandre - rich, beautiful, possibly insane - who has to live with the knowledge of a devastating event in her past.

Lu' Brant is the newly elected - and first female - state's attorney of Howard County, Maryland, a job in which her revered father famously served. Fiercely intelligent and ambitious, she sees an opportunity to make her name by trying a mentally disturbed drifter accused of beating a woman to death in her home.

For PI Tess Monaghan secrets from the past can be murder . . . From the author of WILDE LAKE.

'Extraordinary . The kind of woman he picked up in a bar three years ago precisely because she had that kind of wildcat energy. And now she's vanished - at least from the life that he and his kid will live.

Winner of the eDunnit Award (Best crime novel in e book) 2017'Wilde Lake is a knockout.' Stephen King'Intriguing premise, stunning reveal, irresistible read.' Val McDermid'Wilde Lake is a standout novel: an intelligent, emotional, satisfying mystery that explores huge themes in small-town microcosm, in the manner of To Kill A Mockingbird, the inspiration..

A writer discovers the truth about her past in this haunting and multi-layered thriller from the multi-award-winning New York Times bestseller.What if you found out that the central story of your life was a lie?A successful writer returns to her hometown of Baltimore on the hunt for new material and stumbles into the middle of a mystery which takes..

Named one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2018 by Bustle, Popsugar, Wall Street Journal, Entertainment Weekly, Seattle Times, Book Riot, LitHub, BookPage, and Paperback Paris."e;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..

'Sunburn is [Lippman's] dark, gleaming noir gem. Read it.' GILLIAN FYNNNominated for the CWA Gold Dagger, 2018Meet Polly, which may or may not be her real name, this year's most dangerous leading lady...They meet by chance in a local bar in a small town in Delaware. Polly is heading west. Adam says he's also passing through. Yet she stays and so does..

Everyone in small-town Bellville is talking about a series of mysterious fires disrupting the typically tranquil summer. The authorities attribute them to heat lightning, but some Belleville residents are not so sureHigh-school student Beth, like everyone else in Belleville, has been following the fires she has plenty of time between her monotonous..

Laura Lippman's beloved Baltimore private investigator, Tess Monaghan, has been featured in several short stories, including Ropa Vieja, The Shoeshine Man's Regrets, and The Book Thing*. Another story, The Every Day Housewife, provides the first look into the inner life of Tess's mother as a young newlywed in the 1970s. As a bonus, there is also a "e;profile"e;..

Laura Lippman has long been fascinated by the dangerous vulnerability of teenage girls. In The Babysitter's Codethe inspiration for her critically acclaimed novel, To the Power of Threean adolescent girl decides to take a gun to school. In Hardly Knew Her, Lippman's homage to Carson McCullers The Member of the Wedding, a tomboy learns that growing up..

Heloise is a suburban madam who flies under the radar in her affluent Maryland community by claiming shes a lobbyist. Featured in Laura Lippmans novel And When She Was Good, Heloise first appeared in two short stories, One True Love and Scratch a Woman. In a third story, Form 95, a police detective spins a web that not even the vigilant Heloise suspects...

The kind of woman he picked up in a bar three years ago precisely because she had that kind of wildcat energy. And now she's vanished - at least from the life that he and his kid will live. We'll follow her, to a new town, a new job, and a new friend, who thinks he has her figured. So who is this woman who calls herself Polly?

Meet some of the most dangerous women master of psychological suspense Laura Lippman has ever created in works so dark that her husband observed that most of her short stories center on betrayals between men and women. These stories include a senior citizen porn star (Femme Fatale); two twenty-somethings deranged by calorie deprivation (The Crack Cocaine..

Men in Laura Lippman's haunting and suspenseful stories can be terrified witnesses, unwitting victims, or bemused perpetrators. In Pony Girl and Black-Eyed Susan, young African-American men find themselves bystanders to horrific crimes central to local celebrations. In What He Needed, a happily married magazine editor recounts the end of her marriage..