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Tess Monaghan
Created by Laura Lippman
Hot shot Baltimore reporter TESS MONAGHAN suddenly finds herself out of work, when the newspaper she works for, The Baltimore Star, keels over and dies. Suddenly unemployed, Tess will take almost anything to pay the rent, including acting as a private eye, if that's what it takes. Evidently, that is what it takes, since by the time of her third novel-length adventure, she's become an official licensed private eye, complete with an office in a not-so-nice address in Baltimore.
Tess is a great character, a tough-minded but human investigator; determined to live life on her own terms. And thanks to her passion for rowing, she's not someone who's willing to be pushed around. The series has garnered some very good press, and a loyal fan base.The Baltimore setting adds a special flavor, not to mention enough murder to keep things hopping, and the dialogue just crackles. Recommended. Highly.
Author Laura Lippman, a former feature writer for the Baltimore Sun, has written numerous novels about Tess Monaghan and has won several awards -- including the Edgar, the Anthony, the Agatha, the Shamus and the Nero Wolfe -- she cheerfully admits she "may have even deserved one or two of them, but probably not." Just to hedge her bets, she's also taken up a lucrative sideline lately: writing standalones (Every Secret Thing, To the Power of Three and, most recently, What the Dead Know) that are, if anything, even better than the Tess books.
She lives and works in Baltimore. She wanted to be hardboiled but, to paraphrase Jessica Rabbit, she just wasn't drawn that way.
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