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In Big Trouble (Tess Monaghan Mysteries)
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780380798476
ISBN: 0380798476
Label: Avon
Manufacturer: Avon
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: September 01, 1999
Publisher: Avon
Release Date: September 01, 1999
Studio: Avon
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Editorial Review: Edgar Award-winner Laura Lippman is developing a reputation as one of the most exciting new detective fiction authors in years. Now she delivers her most suspenseful novel yet, and places Baltimore's Tess Monaghan . . . In Big Trouble.
First as a reporter and then as a p.i., Tess Monaghan has learned how to survive and thrive on the streets of Baltimore. But a new case will force her to confront her own past, and a man she loved and lost. It starts when she gets a newspaper photograph of her old boyfriend with a tantalizing shard of headline attached: In Big Trouble. The answers lie far from Baltimore, deep in a world of good-time music, old-fashioned ambiiton, and rich people's games. For Tess must find out what happened to a man she thought she knew, to a woman who may have changed him forever, and to the victims of a killer who dances to a different—and deadly—drummer.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Typical Lippman, excellent read, factually accurate
The thing I like about Laura Lippman is that she does her research. The way she describes San Antonio is wonderfully accurate, down to the names of streets, places and historical facts. Coupled with her gift to tell a really great story with out giving "too much information".
It's a great summer book and reads nice and smooth. I've no doubt you'll enjoy it as much as I did, particularly if you're already a Tess Monaghan fan.
Rating: - Crime Beat Street Blogger
After listening to NPR's Crime in the City Series I decided to check out a Tess Monaghan story, written by Laura Lippman. I picked In Big Trouble arbitrarily, not realizing that this is one story that does not take place in Balitmore, even though the Monaghan series is usually set in "Charm City". It didn't matter though, San Antonio was a great location and the same type of attention that Lippman probably gives to Baltimore in her other books was lavished on Texas with great affect. The mystery ... Read More
Rating:  - continued excellence
In this continuation of the Tess Monaghan series, Ms. Lippman removes Tess from her usual milieu and places her in San Antonio, Texas, about as far, culturally-speaking, from Baltimore as can be.
I live in San Antonio, so I can vouch for the accuracy with which Ms. Lippman describes the Alamo City, and she does a good job of incorporating real restaurants and hangouts throughout the novel. She even got me thinking about a couple of things, including the way that the Broadway area is ... Read More
Rating: - Gone to Texas
This is a complex plot about relationships. Crow has left Tess and taken his band (Poe White Trash) to Texas. Now his parents contact Tess because he is no longer in contact and they are worried. Tess has also received a message with an indication that he is in trouble. The search should be simple. She has a recent photo and is looking for a performing musician. But the trail is initially cold, and things are complicated by Tess finding an overripe body, someone of interest to the police in ... Read More
Rating: - Enjoyable change of pace for Tess AND Laura
It's a shame to see some of the kvetching about Tess leaving her beloved Baltimore for other climes. Lippman wisely chose as a place she once worked as a newspaper reporter -- Texas. Having worked on a daily in Texas myself (and as a big fan of the city of San Antonio), I can tell you that Laura's depiction of this wonderfully quirky city and its inhabitants is dang near perfect. As with other Monaghan stories, it's as much about Tess as it is about the mystery to be solved ... and there few more ... Read More
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