Though Laura Lippman’s newest novel is not the first book I started in 2020, it is the first I finished, thanks to a four-hour plane ride and a pile of newly downloaded library books on my Kindle.  I am a fan of Lippman’s—have been ever since I read the first Tess Monaghan book—Baltimore Blues.  There is a Tess connection here but you’ll have to wait until the end of the book to discover it. The backbone of this novel is the story of Maddie Schwartz […]