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Publication Order of Tess Monaghan Books

Baltimore Blues (1997)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Charm City (1997)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Butchers Hill (1998)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
In Big Trouble (1999)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Sugar House (2000)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
In a Strange City (2001)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Last Place (2002)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
By a Spider's Thread (2004)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
No Good Deeds (2006)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Another Thing to Fall (2008)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Girl in the Green Raincoat (2008)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Book Thing (2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Hush Hush (2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Tess Monaghan Collections

The Tess Chronicles (2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Every Secret Thing (2003)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
To the Power of Three (2005)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
What the Dead Know / Little Sister (2007)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Life Sentences (2009)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
I'd Know You Anywhere / Don't Look Back (2010)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Most Dangerous Thing / The Innocents (2011)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
And When She Was Good (2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
After I'm Gone (2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Five Fires (2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Wilde Lake (2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Sunburn (2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Lady in the Lake (2019)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Dream Girl (2021)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Prom Mom (2023)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

Hardly Knew Her (2008)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
One True Love (2008)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Black-Eyed Susan (2008)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Scratch a Woman (2008)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
A Good Fuck Spoiled (2008)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Crack Cocaine Diet (2008)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Easy as A-B-C (2008)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
What He Needed (2008)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Dear Penthouse Forum (2008)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Honor Bar (2008)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Shoeshine Man's Regrets (2008)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Femme Fatale (2008)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Pony Girl (2008)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
ARM and the Woman (2008)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Ropa Vieja (2008)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Babysitter's Code (2008)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Waco 1982 (2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Hardly Knew Her: Stories (2008)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Hints of Heloise (2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Different for Girls (2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Nasty Girls (2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Weaker Sex (2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Seasonal Work (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

My Life as a Villainess (2020)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Akashic Drug Chronicles Books

The Cocaine Chronicles (With: Lee Child,Ken Bruen,Jervey Tervalon,Bill Moody) (2005)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Marijuana Chronicles (By:Jonathan Santlofer) (2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Nicotine Chronicles (By:Lee Child,Joyce Carol Oates,Hannah Tinti,Christopher Sorrentino,Cara Black,,,Jonathan Ames) (2020)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Mysterious Profiles Books

Elvis Cole and Joe Pike (By:Robert Crais) (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Jack Taylor (By:Ken Bruen) (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Jack Reacher (By:Lee Child) (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Charlie Parker (By:John Connolly) (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Hieronymus Bosch (By:Michael Connelly) (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Lincoln Rhyme (By:Jeffery Deaver) (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Alex Delaware (By:Jonathan Kellerman) (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Tess Monaghan (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Charlie Resnick (By:John Harvey) (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus (By:Faye Kellerman) (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Inspector Morse (By:Colin Dexter) (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Dismas Hardy (By:John Lescroart) (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Bob Lee Swagger (By:Stephen Hunter) (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Aloysius X. L. Pendergast (By:Douglas Preston) (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Lou Boldt (By:Ridley Pearson) (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Spenser (By:Robert B. Parker) (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Charlotte and Thomas Pitt (By:Anne Perry) (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
John Rebus (By:Ian Rankin) (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Mallory (By:Carol O'Connell) (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Jane Whitefield (By:Thomas Perry) (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Ian Rutledge: A Mysterious Profile (By:Charles Todd) (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Amos Walker (By:Loren D. Estleman) (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Precious Ramotswe (By:Alexander McCall Smith) (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Maisie Dobbs (By:Jacqueline Winspear) (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Lincoln Lawyer (By:Michael Connelly) (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Bibliomysteries Books

The Book of Virtue (By:Ken Bruen) (2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Pronghorns of the Third Reich (By:C.J. Box) (2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Book Thing (2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Book Case (By:Nelson DeMille) (2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
An Acceptable Sacrifice (By:Jeffery Deaver) (2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Death Leaves a Bookmark (By:William Link) (2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Final Testament (By:Peter Blauner) (2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Rides a Stranger (By:David Bell) (2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Long Sonata of the Dead (By:Andrew Taylor) (2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Book of Ghosts (By:Reed Farrel Coleman) (2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Compendium of Srem (By:F. Paul Wilson) (2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
What's in a Name? (By:Thomas H. Cook) (2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Remaindered (By:Peter Lovesey) (2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Sequel (By:R.L. Stine) (2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Gospel of Sheba (By:Lyndsay Faye) (2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Nature of My Inheritance (By:Bradford Morrow) (2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
It's in the Book (By:Mickey Spillane) (2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Scroll (By:Anne Perry) (2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Book of the Lion (By:Thomas Perry) (2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Little Men (By:Megan Abbott) (2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Condor in the Stacks (By:James Grady) (2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Mystery, Inc. (By:Joyce Carol Oates) (2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Every Seven Years (By:Denise Mina) (2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
From the Queen (By:Carolyn Hart) (2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Travelling Companion (By:Ian Rankin) (2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Citadel (By:Stephen Hunter) (2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Reconciliation Day (By:Christopher Fowler) (2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Dead Dames Don't Sing (By:John Harvey) (2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Haze (By:James W. Hall) (2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Hoodoo Harry (By:Joe R. Lansdale) (2017)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Pretty Little Box (By:Charles Todd) (2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Seven Years (By:Peter Robinson) (2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Hemingway Valise (By:Robert Olen Butler) (2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Last Honest Horse Thief (By:Michael Koryta) (2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository (By:John Connolly) (2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Dark Door (By:Lisa Unger) (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Chronological Order of Bibliomysteries Books

The Book of Virtue (By:Ken Bruen)(2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Scroll (By:Anne Perry)(2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Pronghorns of the Third Reich (By:C.J. Box)(2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
An Acceptable Sacrifice (By:Jeffery Deaver)(2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Death Leaves a Bookmark (By:William Link)(2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Seven Years (By:Peter Robinson)(2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Book Thing(2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Book of Ghosts (By:Reed Farrel Coleman)(2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Long Sonata of the Dead (By:Andrew Taylor)(2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Final Testament (By:Peter Blauner)(2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Rides a Stranger (By:David Bell)(2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
What's in a Name? (By:Thomas H. Cook)(2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
It's in the Book (By:Mickey Spillane)(2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Nature of My Inheritance (By:Bradford Morrow)(2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Remaindered (By:Peter Lovesey)(2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Compendium of Srem (By:F. Paul Wilson)(2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Gospel of Sheba (By:Lyndsay Faye)(2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Sequel (By:R.L. Stine)(2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Book of the Lion (By:Thomas Perry)(2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Little Men (By:Megan Abbott)(2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
From the Queen (By:Carolyn Hart)(2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Every Seven Years (By:Denise Mina)(2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Citadel (By:Stephen Hunter)(2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Condor in the Stacks (By:James Grady)(2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Mystery, Inc. (By:Joyce Carol Oates)(2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Travelling Companion (By:Ian Rankin)(2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Haze (By:James W. Hall)(2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Dead Dames Don't Sing (By:John Harvey)(2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Reconciliation Day (By:Christopher Fowler)(2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Hoodoo Harry (By:Joe R. Lansdale)(2017)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Pretty Little Box (By:Charles Todd)(2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository (By:John Connolly)(2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Hemingway Valise (By:Robert Olen Butler)(2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Last Honest Horse Thief (By:Michael Koryta)(2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Book Case (By:Nelson DeMille)(2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Dark Door (By:Lisa Unger)(2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Hush Collection Books

Treasure (By:Oyinkan Braithwaite) (2020)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Snowflakes (By:Ruth Ware) (2020)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Buried (By:Jeffery Deaver) (2020)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Let Her Be (By:Lisa Unger) (2020)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Gift (By:Alison Gaylin) (2020)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Slow Burner (2020)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Anthologies

Tart Noir(2003)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
In the Shadow of the Master(2003)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Adventure of the Missing Detective and 19 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories(2005)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Cocaine Chronicles(2005)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Dangerous Women(2005)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Baltimore Noir(2006)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Damn Near Dead(2006)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Mystery Writers of America Presents Death Do Us Part: New Stories About Love, Lust, and Murder(2006)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
New Orleans Noir(2007)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Mystery Stories 2007(2007)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Killer Year: Stories to Die For...(2008)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Pulp Fiction - The Dames(2008)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading(2009)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Twilight Zone: 19 Original Stories on the 50th Anniversary(2009)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
By Hook or By Crook and 27 More of the Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year(2010)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
By Hook or By Crook and 30 More of the Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year(2010)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
A Study in Sherlock(2011)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
USA Noir(2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Mystery Writers of America Presents The Mystery Box(2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Mystery Stories 2014(2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Mystery Writers of America Presents Ice Cold(2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Pretty Bitches(2020)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Much like her most famous character, Tess Monaghan, Laura Lippman found early success as a reporter. Born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 31, 1959, Laura Lippman was raised in Baltimore, Maryland. In Baltimore, Lippman began her career as a reporter working for The Baltimore Sun and the San Antonio Light, a paper that has since closed. Lippman has become entrenched in the Baltimore arts scene. Her husband, David Simon, is the creator and Executive Producer of the acclaimed HBO series The Wire, which follows the reporters, police, and criminals of the city of Baltimore. Lippman guest starred in a cameo role working for the Baltimore Sun in an early episode on the series.

Laura Lippman attended Baltimore schools through the ninth grade. She then attended Wilde Lake High School in Colombia, Maryland. Lippman matriculated into Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism in Chicago, Illinois. Upon graduating from Northwestern, Lippman returned to her home in Baltimore, where she began what would be a twenty-year career in journalism, twelve of which would be served with the newspaper The Baltimore Sun.

Lippman fully retired from journalism in 2001 in order to fully concentrate on her career as a novelist. Before leaving, Lippman had already published seven novels in the Tess Monaghan series. In addition to her work on this series, totaling 11 books to date, Lippman has also published eight standalone novels, as well as numerous short stories. For her work in fiction, Lippman was granted the Edgar ®, The Agatha, The Anthony, The Nero Wolfe, Gumeshoe, The Shamus, and Barry awards. She has also been nominated for the Hammett and Macavity prizes, and notably was the first recipient ever of the Mayor’s Prize, awarded for Literary Excellence. In addition, Lippman was recognized as Author of the Year by the Maryland Library Association. She was the first genre writer to be granted this award. Laura Lippman’s writing has been favorably reviewed by multiple institutions. The Washington Post says Lippman is “one of the best novelists around, period.” Booklist says “Lippman’s taut, mesmerizing, and exceptionally smart drama of predator and prey is at once unusually sensitive and utterly compelling.”

In 2010, renowned actress Frances McDormand purchased the rights to Lippman’s standalone novel Every Secret Thing. The film is scheduled for release in the first half of 2015, after receiving extremely high praise after it’s April showing at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2014. The film, produced by McDormand and directed by Amy Berg, stars Diane Lane, Elizabeth Banks, and Dakota Fanning. The book follows an 18-year-old named Alice Manning, who becomes a suspect in the disappearance of a child.

Most of Lippman’s writing is centered in and around Baltimore. Baltimore is a city with a long history of art and crime, made a significant impact on Lippman’s many varied characters and stories, none more than Tess Monaghan. Tess Monaghan is a reporter in Baltimore who, at the onset of the series, has ‘accidentally’ turned Private Investigator. Beginning in the novel Baltimore Blues, P.I. Tess Monaghan explores some of the more sinister cases in Baltimore, solving them with unmatched tenacity.

Baltimore has long been a troubled city, with murders occurring almost every day. In the inaugural novel Baltimore Blues, Attorney Michael Abramowitz is killed. Attorney Abramowitz death is different than the typical killings because of his high-profile lifestyle. Known to enjoy illegal trysts in the middle of the day, Attorney Abramowitz winds up on the front page of every local newspaper. Tess Monaghan is a recently unemployed reporter who worked for the The Star, a local paper which failed and shut down. Tess’s work as a reporter in Baltimore led her to know the city better than most, including some of the most notorious members of the city. One of her old rowing buddies, Darryl “Rock” Paxton, the cuckolded fiancé, is the Baltimore Police’s number one suspect, and so he looks to his friend Tess Monaghan to help clear his name. In need of a job, Tess agrees. What should have been a straightforward case leads to secrets and life-threatening situations, which bring Tess closer to death than she ever knew possible.

Later in the series comes the novel In Big Trouble, which finds Tess settling in to her new lifestyle as a Private Investigator. The calm quickly dissipates upon receiving an envelope postmarked Boerne, Texas. The contents include a photo of her former boyfriend Crow, a musician, and a small newspaper scrap reading the headline “in big trouble.” Monaghan leaves Baltimore behind to visit Crow’s parents in Charlottesville, Texas, but what was meant to be a quick check-in turns into a road trip fraught with danger, secrets, and lies. Having left the city she knows so well, Tess Monaghan finds herself feeling lost and insecure in the vast desert landscape where the days are long and hot, the nights stark and cold. Tess’s ex-boyfriend Crow seems to have disappeared with a relatively unknown blonde singer, which sets Tess on the trail to finding where, and why, they vanished. As she searches, she finds herself entrenched in the multitude of family secrets, and the quick-rising body count as her search continues.

In addition to the Tess Monaghan series, Lippman has also written a large variety of short stories. Of note is one story in particular, Easy as ABC, which is collected in the anthology Baltimore Noir. Each story is set in a different neighborhood in Baltimore. Lippman’s story takes place in Locust Point, the area that houses the famed Fort McHenry. Lippman also pens the foreword to this collection, in which she discusses why Baltimore is the perfect setting for noir-style stories. “Baltimore has an odd geographic distinction. It is one of only two major U.S. cities that lies in no county… Landlocked on every side but one…it cannot expand or annex. Squeezed this way, it is a perfect setting for noir, which depends on an almost Darwinian desperation among its players.” Noir fiction is characterized by an often-victimized protagonist plunged deep into a corrupt and lawless world. Thus, Laura Lippman’s hometown of Baltimore makes the most compelling setting for these stories, and indeed, the large body of her collected works.

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