Charm City
$64.77
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
30 November 2001
Summary
As a practised reporter until her newspaper went to that great pressroom in the sky, PI Tess Monaghan knows and loves every inch of her native Baltimore. 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 Balti…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780752843612 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0752843613 |
| Author: | Laura Lippman |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Orion |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Edition: | 3rd |
| Release Date: | 30 November 2001 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 176mm x 110mm x 28mm |
| Series: | Tess Monaghan Investigation |
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One of the best novelists around, period
Lippman is a writing powerhouse * USA TODAY *Every time Laura Lippman comes out with a new book, I get chills because I know I am back in the hands of the master. She is simply a brilliant novelist, an unflinching chronicler of life in America right now – Gillian FlynnA force to be reckoned with in crime fiction * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY *Laura Lippman is among the select group of novelists who have invigorated the crime fiction arena with smart, innovative, and exciting work – George PelecanosLaura Lippman continues to push the envelope of modern crime-writing – Harlan Coben[Lippman] only seems to be getting better * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY *One of the best novelists around, period * WASHINGTON POST *One of the most polished and consistently interesting writers of detective fiction today * THE ECONOMIST *
About The Author
Laura Lippman
Laura Lippman is a reporter and lives in Baltimore. Her Tess Monaghan novels have won numerous awards, including the Shamus, the Edgar, the Anthony and the Agatha awards.
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