Charm City (29 page)

LAURA
LIPPMAN
was a newspaper reporter at the
Baltimore
Sun
for fifteen years. Her Tess Monaghan
novels—
Baltimore Blues
,
Charm City
,
Butchers
Hill
,
In Big Trouble
,
The Sugar House
, and
The
Last Place
—have won the Edgar, Agatha,
Shamus, Anthony and Nero Wolfe awards, and her novel,
In
a Strange City
, was named a
New
York Times
Notable Book of the Year. Her latest
standalone crime novel,
Every Secret Thing
,
was published by William Morrow in September 2003. You can visit her
website at
www.lauralippman.com
.