Author: Laura Lippman
Year: 1997
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Mystery, Award winners, Detective
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9780062400611
9780380788767
0062400614
0380788764 |
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As a practiced reporter until her newspaper went to that great pressroom in the sky, P.I. Tess Monaghan knows and loves every inch of her native Baltimore, even the parts being slobbered on by the sad-sack greyhound she's minding for her uncle. It's a quirky city where baseball reigns, but lately homicide seems to be the second most popular local sport. Business tycoon "Wink" Wynkowski is trying to change all that by bringing pro basketball back to town, and everybody's rooting for him; until a devastating, muckraking expose of his lurid past appears on the front page of the Baltimore Beacon-Light. It's a surprise even to the Blight's editors, who thought they'd killed the piece. Instead, the piece killed Wink, who's found in his garage with the car running.
Now the Blight wants to nail the unknown computer hacker who planted the lethal story, and the assignment is right up the alley of a former newshound like Tess. But it doesn't take long for her to discover deeper, darker secrets, and to realize that this situation is really more about whacking than hacking. It's just murder in Baltimore these days, and Tess Monaghan herself might be next on the list.
This book is part of the "Tess Monaghan" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "Hush Hush"
First published in 2015
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 | "No Good Deeds"
First published in 2006
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 | "By A Spider's Thread"
First published in 2004
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 | "The Last Place"
First published in 2002
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 | "In a Strange City"
First published in 2001
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 | "The Sugar House"
First published in 2000
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 | "In Big Trouble"
First published in 1999
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 | "Butchers Hill"
First published in 1998
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 | "Baltimore Blues"
First published in 1997
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