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Allow, if you’re still alive, six to eight years to arrive

Sunburn by Laura Lippman

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There’s something about a noir novel with the word ‘sun’ in its title. It’s coming to me now. Wait. It’s almost there. … Nope, it’s gone now. Anyway. It’s 1994. Two attractive strangers walk into a sleepy Delaware town. She is Polly, a redhead with a sunburn, who has just left her husband and three year old daughter; he is Adam, a PI, looking for a woman once known as Pauline. They meet in the town’s only bar. She finds work as a waitress, he as a cook. They fall in love. There’s an apartment with an iron bed and […]

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5/27/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:15 |

Please Save me From White Savior Books

No Good Deeds by Laura Lippman

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  SPOILERS BELOW ON BOOK. So I thought about trying to edit this to take out spoilers, but screw it, I am busy today and don’t have the time or energy. It didn’t help that I ended up straight disliking this book and loathing Tess’s boyfriend Crow. There was an interesting plot in there that the white savior crap got in the way of while I was reading. I think showcasing Crow’s POV actually made things worse. He’s a terrible ass boyfriend who resents Tess and I don’t see how that makes a great relationship. At least Tess’s aunt pulled […]

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5/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:104 |

Not only the difference between Coke and Pepsi, but Wise potato chips and Utz, Little Debbie’s and Hostess.

The Sugar House by Laura Lippman

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Book 5 – The Sugar House This is the first of all the Tess Monaghan books that I have read the physical print edition, and I would have preferred to listen to the audiobook, but that one hasn’t been available to me. Instead, I read this one, and that different experience shifted a lot around for the book. For one, I felt like the secondary mysteries overlapped in less interesting ways than before. I felt more suspect of the ways in which two mysteries with thematic connections played out at the same time. In addition, having a mystery fold back […]

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5/7/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:243 |

Said the Spider to the Fly…

By a Spider's Thread by Laura Lippman

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I honestly don’t have much to say here except that I really enjoyed this updated look at Tess’s life. She is still suffering some aftershocks after the events in the last book. Having to kill someone or she would be killed left a hole in her. She and her boyfriend are living apart since she feels like he is trying to “fix” her and keep her safe. She is back to rowing and doing investigations again. Her uncle brings her a new client who is trying to track down his wife and three children. He doesn’t understand why she left […]

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4/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:91 |

Read It Here First

Lady in the Lake by Laura Lippman

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I won a free ARC from Goodreads in exchange for this review. Thanks Goodreads! Laura Lippman’s been on a bit of a roll with her standalone novels. Wilde Lake was really good and Sunburn is, in my estimation, the best thing she’s ever done. Most of what I loved about reading Lippman’s Tess Monaghan novels growing up was the Baltimore tourism. Being a native of the city, it’s fun to see a bestselling author talk about places I know like they’re real. But her standalone works show how she has evolved as a writer, forsaking the familiar private eye tropes and Baltimore fetishism of […]

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4/1/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:35 |

Full Circle

The Last Place by Laura Lippman

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Wow. This was really good. We have Tess pulled into an investigation that has her in the crosshairs of someone that wants to show Tess how good he would be for her. That without him, she wouldn’t be who she is now. This whole book is a wonderful look at so many things I don’t even know where to start. With a case that lands Tess into mandatory anger management. With her realizing how great her relationship with her boyfriend is mostly because he’s not there to tell her what to do, but support her. Her making friends with a […]

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3/25/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:72 |

Coitus interruptus by SWAT team. At last a form of birth control that was one hundred percent reliable.

Butchers Hill by Laura Lippman

In Big Trouble by Laura Lippman

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Butchers Hill In which Tess Monghan learns she’s white, and that there are Black people in Baltimore. So in this book the lead character, Tess, Monaghan, officially opens up her shop in the central Baltimore neighbor hood of Butchers Hill, named not for the butchering of people, we soon learn, but for the old practice of butchers living there. Her first two cases are finding the children who were witnesses to a famous murder/manslaughter from five years earlier in which an older Black man was charged with the death of 11 year old he caught breaking into/messing with his car. […]

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3/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:153 |

She didn’t plan on going back into the Patapsco anytime soon.

Baltimore Blues by Laura Lippman

Charm City by Laura Lippman

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Baltimore Blues – 3 (3.5)/5 There’s something excited about starting a new series and finding something engaging and interesting about it. I love the Wire and when I reviewed another, later Laura Lippman novel, I talked about how I felt like the novel had the feel of the city right. And in some ways, or different ways, it captures more of Baltimore or a different slice of it, also accurately. The thing the Wire was never great at doing was capturing any part of the weird middle class culture there. Not that THAT story needs a lot of telling, but […]

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3/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:151 |


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