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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:Other titles in the Tess Monaghan Mysteries series:In a Strange City (Tess Monaghan Mysteries)by Laura Lippman
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:It is a treasured Charm City tradition. Every year on Edgar Allan Poe's birthday a figure wrapped in a dark cloak visits the renowned author's Baltimore gravesite and leaves behind three roses and half a bottle of cognac. No Baltimorean worth his or her salt would ever dream of trying to determine the true identity of the "Poe Toaster," thereby possibly destroying a cherished ritual. That's why Tess Monaghan refuses to help the odd, piglike man who wants to hire her to unmask the Visitor, who the Porcine One claims has deceived and cheated him. If nothing else, the rejected client's story has whetted Tess's curiosity — and so the following evening she and her enthusiastic boyfriend, Crow, are braving the winter chill and the graveyard dark to observe the strange, beloved rite from a respectful distance. But on this particular January 19, two caped figures approach Poe's resting place. One leaves the tribute and escapes into the night. The other dies there, felled by an assassin's bullet. Tess sees nothing that the other witnesses didn't see. She isn't working for anyone at the moment—and the homicide detective who caught this particular "red ball" is an old and dangerous nemesis — so it might be worth her while to avoid this case like the plague. But someone else wants Tess involved in the worst way. A stranger is surreptitiously leaving her roses and cognac and bizarre, cryptic clues — someone who knows Tess's habits, someone who knows who she knows and where she lives. And suddenly home is a safe haven no longer. Like it or not, Tess Monaghan is now a prime player in the murderous drama. And as the body count rises even higher, she uncovers links in a chain of greed, lies, false histories, and deadly acquisitiveness, a dangerously twisted mystery worthy of Poe himself. Review:"The author offers a host of Poe-esque thrills, from multiple murders to a woman buried alive....Lippman shows in this, her sixth novel, that she's indeed deserving of all the kudos she's received." Publishers Weekly Review:"If Lippman has her way, Baltimore will be a strange city no longer, but the delight of readers from there to San Diego." Kirkus Reviews Synopsis:Each year, a cloaked figure visits the grave of Edgar Allan Poe in Baltimore and leaves three roses and a half-bottle of cognac. This year, private investigator Tess Monaghan is among the witnesses of this cherished rite. However, two caped visitors enter the cemetery, but one is shot to death. Someone wants Tess involved in a murder investigation--someone who leaves roses and cognac on her doorstep. About the AuthorLaura Lippman was a newspaper reporter at the Baltimore Sun for twelve years. Her previous novel, What the Dead Know, was a New York Times bestseller. Her Tess Monaghan books—By a Spider's Thread, The Last Place, The Sugar House, Baltimore Blues, Charm City, Butchers Hill and In Big Trouble—have won the Edgar, Agatha, Shamus, Anthony, and Nero Wolfe awards, and In a Strange City was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Lippman is also the author of the critically acclaimed stand-alone novel Every Secret Thing. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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