Laura Lippman has claimed all the major prizes in mystery writing and is a New York Times best-selling author. 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. Each has a domestic violence angle, and the cases also share a disturbing connection - one that points to Tess herself.

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

Author Cassandra Fallows has achieved remarkable success by baring her life on the page. Her two widely popular memoirs continue to sell briskly, acclaimed for their brutal, unexpurgated candor about friends, family, lovers - and herself. But now, after a singularly unsuccessful stab at fiction, Cassandra believes she may have found the story that will enable her triumphant return to nonfiction.

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. In a city where someone is murdered almost every day, attorney Michael Abramowitz's death should be just another statistic. But the slain lawyer's notoriety - and his noontime trysts with Rock's fiancée - make the case front page news...and point to Rock as the likely murderer.

When private eye Tess Monaghan finds herself on a collision course with the makers of a TV series being shot in her own native Baltimore, it is the beginning of a case that only a crazed scriptwriter could have dreamed up. Selene Waites, the glamorous star of the show, has been the victim of a twisted stalker. The executive producer thinks that Tess would be just the person to bodyguard her during filming.

Laura Lippman won the Nero Wolfe Award for this powerful mystery. 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.

A Sunday newspaper profile of Tess Monaghan, Baltimore's favorite private detective.

Sally Holt has spent her life being the perfect Washington hostess and an excellent listener. When her husband divorces her unexpectedly, she must use the information she's gleaned in unexpected ways in order to maintain her lifestyle.

When a babysitter on the job finds a gun hidden in the lingerie drawer of the woman who hired her, she finds it difficult to stay within the guidelines of the babysitter's code.

From their rowhouse south of Pimlico racetrack, middle-schooler Dontay Melville's family does everything they can to make extra money on Preakness Saturday. In this story, Dontay recalls a mysterious female customer that he won't soon forget.