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You’ll be the death of me. Literally and Figuratively.

Another Thing to Fall by Laura Lippman

The Girl in the Green Raincoat by Laura Lippman

The Book Thing by Laura Lippman

Hush Hush by Laura Lippman

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Another Thing to Fall This has the feel of a late int he series kind of mystery novel where some of the magic has disappeared, but there’s still a solid core. We also have the clear idea that the narrative is shiftinaway from the main focus and more toward some of the ancillary characters in the series, particularly Lloyd, new star from No Good Deeds. Tess literally runs aground of a movie set in the middle of the Patapsco river during a rowing set. She is pulled aboard a boat trying to capture a shot. A tv show has come […]

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11/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:628 |

It’s a classic example of how corporate accounting works.

No Good Deeds by Laura Lippman

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This is the ninth book of the Tess Monaghan series, and more so than the ones in which she faced certain mortal peril, I find this one super scary. The issue with this is one is not that someone might kill, but that someone with infinite more power than her will use it to destroy her life. This story also focuses heavily on Crowe, Tess’s boyfriend, who is reckoning with his position as more or less well off (not necessarily rich, but with a support system he could fall back on), white, and middle class in a city that is […]

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11/5/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:614 |

His father knew everything, or close enough.

By a Spider's Thread by Laura Lippman

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In this novel we begin with a boy who seems presumably kidnapped going up to a security guard saying that his mom and some man have taken him all across the country indicating some kind of kidnapping. We return to Tess, where she is approached by a conservative Jewish man (who won’t shake her hand) asking her to track down his wife and children. Because they are not divorced, this doesn’t amount to a crime, but is a kind of pre-crime. Tess finds out she’s a Ukrainian Jewish immigrant living coming from an immigrant community in Baltimore county (Pikesville/Reisterstown), and […]

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10/27/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:587 |

Their Internet buddy was in serious need of an intervention.

The Last Place by Laura Lippman

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This is by far the most ambitious of the Tess Monaghan books so far, and I think it might be the longest. Tess is hired by a non-profit advocacy group to research homicides around the state looking for police inconsistencies and errors that might have led to unsolved murders. They are especially looking for situations in which domestic violence was ruled out, never considered, or dismissed in order to effect changes to Maryland law. Tess is especially earnest for this work because we start the novel out with her and Whitney, her rich college friend (who is on the board […]

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10/22/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:577 |

One dwells in lonely places. The fever called living.

In A Strange City by Laura Lippman

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Of the six I’ve read, this is the best of the Tess Monaghan novels, which is especially nice since I really didn’t like the previous two–one because I didn’t think it was very good, and one because it felt off-brand. This is one is also pretty goofy in a lot of ways, almost to the point of absurdity, but she keeps it in check. I think the reason why I liked this one so much is that we’re inching closer and closer to the time I lived in Baltimore, and so the Baltimore I know is shaping up more and […]

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10/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:573 |

The World Beyond Your Window

The Girl in the Green Raincoat by Laura Lippman

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Not anything to argue about with the 11th book following Tess Monaghan. Tess pulls a Hitchcock and after spying on a young woman in a green raincoat realizes she hasn’t seen her for a while and worries that something happened to her. Tess can’t do much investigation in this one, and relies on Whitney, and old friends to track down the young woman and find out what happened to her. The ending was definitely a surprise and I liked the change in direction in Tess’s life. “The Girl in the Green Raincoat” is a short story (176 pages to be […]

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10/9/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:253 |

Read Like a Filler Book

Another Thing to Fall by Laura Lippman

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Not too much to say here except that this read like a filler book in the adventures of Tess and her private investigation business. It’s pretty apparent she got some of this plot idea from being married to David Simon. It just didn’t work and honestly all of the characters we are used to (Whitney, Crow, and even now I guess Lloyd) felt very muted. “Another Thing to Fall” has Tess almost being ran over by a television crew boat. She’s somehow offered a job out of nowhere to keep an actress on their set safe. The young actress’s photos […]

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8/26/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:201 |

Pink, peeling.

Sunburn by Laura Lippman

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Second to latest Laura Lippman novel, and I am starting to think that as much as a like about the Tess Monaghan novels, she’s really better outside of them. This might simply be a case of having read her first five novels versus reading her most recent three though. This novel begins with a man entering a bar in smalltown Delaware and noticing a mid-30s sunburned lady and sidling up to her. From there Laura Lippman slowly unravels this central image telling us that this woman has just run away from her husband and young daughter in the middle of […]

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8/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:479 |


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