- Monaghan, tess (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, Baltimore (md.), fiction, Maryland, fiction
Edgar Award-winner Laura Lippman is developing a reputation as one of the most exciting new detective fiction authors in years. Now she delivers her most suspenseful novel yet, and places Baltimore's Tess Monaghan...In Big Trouble.First as a reporter and then as a p.i., Tess Monaghan has learned how to survive and thrive on the streets of Baltimore.
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- Author
- Laura Lippman, Deborah Hazlett
- First published
- November 2, 2000
- Pages
- 342
- Publisher
- Blackstone Audiobooks, Avon, Avon Books
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780571319978
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“Tess Monaghan hated surveillance work, something of a problem for someone who made her living as a private investigator.”
Laura Lippman (born January 31, 1959) is an American journalist and author of over 20 detective fiction novels.[1] Her novels have won multiple awards, including an Agatha Award, seven Anthony Awards, two Barry Awards, an Edgar Award, a Gumshoe Award, a Macavity Award, a Nero Award, two Shamus Awards, and two Strand Critics Award. -Wikipedia
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