Charm City
by:
Laura Lippman (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781417710126 (1417710128)
Publish date: October 1st 1997
Publisher: Turtleback Books
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...