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Smash: Trial by Fire
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The Sugar House:: A Tess Monaghan Mystery (Tess Monaghan Mysteries)

by Laura Lippman

ISBN13: 9780380810222
ISBN10: 0380810220
Condition: Standard
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A client named Ruthie — who seems to know Tess's father a little too well — asks the newspaperwoman-turned-p.i. to investigate a year-old "Jane Doe" murder and its grim aftermath. Ruthie's low-life brother, Henry, confessed to killing a teenager runaway over a bottle of glue — and, a month into his prison term, he met the same fate as his victim. Following a precious few tantalizing clues, Tess sets off on a path that is leading her from Baltimore's exclusive Inner Harbor to the city's seediest neighborhoods. But it's the shocking discovery of the runaway's true identity that turns her hunt deadly. Suddenly a supposedly solved murder case is turning up newer, fresher corpses and newer, scarier versions of the Sugar House — places that look sweet and safe...but only from the outside.

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Newspaperwoman-turned-P.I. Tess Monaghan is asked by new client Ruthie to investigate the year-old murder of a runaway "Jane Doe" after Ruthie's brother, who confessed to the murder, turns up killed in the same way. Tess is led from Baltimore's exclusive Inner Harbor to the city's seediest neighborhoods as she searches for the runaway's true identity.

About the Author

Laura Lippman was a newspaper reporter at the Baltimore Sun for fifteen years. Her Tess Monaghan novels — 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 her novel, In a Strange City, was a New York Times Notable Book.

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ISBN:: 9780380810222
Subtitle:: A Tess Monaghan Mystery
Author:: Lippman, Laura
Author:: by Laura Lippman
Author:: Clarke, Austin
Author:: Melville, Herman
Publisher:: Avon
Location:: New York
Subject:: Mystery & Detective - General
Subject:: Mystery & Detective - Series
Subject:: Detective and mystery stories
Subject:: Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
Subject:: Maryland
Subject:: Baltimore
Subject:: Monaghan, Tess
Subject:: Women private investigators
Subject:: General Fiction
Subject:: Mystery-A to Z
Edition Description:: Mass Market PB
Series:: Tess Monaghan Mysteries (Paperback)
Series Volume:: 2001-12
Publication Date:: 20010731
Binding:: Paperback
Grade Level:: General/trade
Language:: English
Pages:: 384
Dimensions:: 9 x 6 x 1.05 in 16.80 oz

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