Charm City: A Tess Monaghan Novel
by:
Laura Lippman (author)
New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman delivers another compelling and clever mystery starring PI Tess Monaghan, but this time the feisty investigator discovers she might’ve gotten herself into a dangerous situation for which there’s no way out.Reporter-turned-p.i. Tess Monaghan loves...
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New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman delivers another compelling and clever mystery starring PI Tess Monaghan, but this time the feisty investigator discovers she might’ve gotten herself into a dangerous situation for which there’s no way out.Reporter-turned-p.i. Tess Monaghan loves every inch of her native Baltimore—a quirky city where baseball reigns, and homicide seems to be the second most popular sport. Local boy made good “Wink” Wynkowski wants to change all of that by bringing pro-basketball back to town—a laudable mission that’s greeted with widespread cheers . . . and a muckraking front page exposé of Wink’s past in the Baltimore Beacon-Light.The “Blight’s” surprised editors are sure they killed the piece. Instead, the piece kills Wynkowski, who’s discovered asphyxiated in his garage with his car’s engine running. Now the paper wants former newshound Tess to track down the rogue employee whose prank may have taken a human life. But there’s more than cyber-crime involved here—and Tess is about to discover firsthand that trying to stay alive in Charm City can be murder.
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780062400611 (0062400614)
ASIN: 0062400614
Publish date: 2015-06-09
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
Category:
Adult,
Mystery,
Detective,
Contemporary,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Womens,
Suspense,
Cozy Mystery,
Fiction
Dealing with the fallout of the death of her ex in book #1, Tess is finally pushing to become a private investigator. Seeing someone new (Crow) she feels a bit more centered, but not by much. Her family still drives her up the wall, her boss (sort of) who is pushing her to get off her butt and set u...
When someone at the Beacon-Light leaks an unfavorable story about the millionaire planning on bringing an NBA team to Baltimore, Tess Monaghan is hired to figure how who spilled the beans. At the same time, she's trying to figure out who put her uncle in the hospital and if it has anything to do wit...
Why just flip houses when you can flip NBA teams?
The plot is sluggish and the clues are a bit random. Tess is still pretty interesting and I wanted e story to be more about her than the different threads of this not very inetresting plot about a man, his downfall and the surprised left field psychotic murderer revealed two chapters from the end of...
Jan 2012: While I enjoyed the 1st book in this series, I just can't seem to get into this 2nd book. Perhaps I have too many other books on my To Be Read shelf? Not sure that it's the book's fault.Keeping this note as a reminder to myself. Maybe when the TBR shelf is emptying up a bit, I'll return to...