Laura Lippman

Tess Monaghan, a private investigator in Baltimore, Maryland, starts out in her first book, Baltimore Blues, trying to help out a rowing friend who wants her to check out his fiance. Tess, former reporter of Irish and Jewish descent, took a long time to find her vocation and stumbled into the private investigator business almost by accident. She often includes quirky relatives and friends in her cases. The people who hire Tess also have more than a few quirks that make the stories entertaining. You can read this series of eleven books by checking our book shelves, interlibrary loan, and the ebook and audiobook collection through Arrowhead Library System. Winner of many awards for mystery fiction, the Tess Monaghan series is not to be missed.

Read the series in order by going to the Stop You’re Killing Me website and looking up Laura Lippman or Tess Monaghan: http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/