Laura Lippman – Page 4 – Cannonball Read 17

One dwells in lonely places. The fever called living.

In A Strange City by Laura Lippman

October 17, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Of the six I’ve read, this is the best of the Tess Monaghan novels, which is especially nice since I really didn’t like the previous two–one because I didn’t think it was very good, and one because it felt off-brand. This is one is also pretty goofy in a lot of ways, almost to the point of absurdity, but she keeps it in check. I think the reason why I liked this one so much is that we’re inching closer and closer to the time […]

The World Beyond Your Window

The Girl in the Green Raincoat by Laura Lippman

October 9, 2019 by Classic Leave a Comment

Not anything to argue about with the 11th book following Tess Monaghan. Tess pulls a Hitchcock and after spying on a young woman in a green raincoat realizes she hasn’t seen her for a while and worries that something happened to her. Tess can’t do much investigation in this one, and relies on Whitney, and old friends to track down the young woman and find out what happened to her. The ending was definitely a surprise and I liked the change in direction in Tess’s […]

Read Like a Filler Book

Another Thing to Fall by Laura Lippman

August 26, 2019 by Classic Leave a Comment

Not too much to say here except that this read like a filler book in the adventures of Tess and her private investigation business. It’s pretty apparent she got some of this plot idea from being married to David Simon. It just didn’t work and honestly all of the characters we are used to (Whitney, Crow, and even now I guess Lloyd) felt very muted. “Another Thing to Fall” has Tess almost being ran over by a television crew boat. She’s somehow offered a job […]

Pink, peeling.

Sunburn by Laura Lippman

August 23, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Second to latest Laura Lippman novel, and I am starting to think that as much as a like about the Tess Monaghan novels, she’s really better outside of them. This might simply be a case of having read her first five novels versus reading her most recent three though. This novel begins with a man entering a bar in smalltown Delaware and noticing a mid-30s sunburned lady and sidling up to her. From there Laura Lippman slowly unravels this central image telling us that this […]

Allow, if you’re still alive, six to eight years to arrive

Sunburn by Laura Lippman

May 27, 2019 by Zirza Leave a Comment

There’s something about a noir novel with the word ‘sun’ in its title. It’s coming to me now. Wait. It’s almost there. … Nope, it’s gone now. Anyway. It’s 1994. Two attractive strangers walk into a sleepy Delaware town. She is Polly, a redhead with a sunburn, who has just left her husband and three year old daughter; he is Adam, a PI, looking for a woman once known as Pauline. They meet in the town’s only bar. She finds work as a waitress, he […]

Please Save me From White Savior Books

No Good Deeds by Laura Lippman

May 10, 2019 by Classic 2 Comments

SPOILERS BELOW ON BOOK. So I thought about trying to edit this to take out spoilers, but screw it, I am busy today and don’t have the time or energy. It didn’t help that I ended up straight disliking this book and loathing Tess’s boyfriend Crow. There was an interesting plot in there that the white savior crap got in the way of while I was reading. I think showcasing Crow’s POV actually made things worse. He’s a terrible ass boyfriend who resents Tess […]

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