Laura Lippman – Page 5 – Cannonball Read 17

Not only the difference between Coke and Pepsi, but Wise potato chips and Utz, Little Debbie’s and Hostess.

The Sugar House by Laura Lippman

May 7, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Book 5 – The Sugar House This is the first of all the Tess Monaghan books that I have read the physical print edition, and I would have preferred to listen to the audiobook, but that one hasn’t been available to me. Instead, I read this one, and that different experience shifted a lot around for the book. For one, I felt like the secondary mysteries overlapped in less interesting ways than before. I felt more suspect of the ways in which two mysteries with […]

Said the Spider to the Fly…

By a Spider's Thread by Laura Lippman

April 12, 2019 by Classic Leave a Comment

I honestly don’t have much to say here except that I really enjoyed this updated look at Tess’s life. She is still suffering some aftershocks after the events in the last book. Having to kill someone or she would be killed left a hole in her. She and her boyfriend are living apart since she feels like he is trying to “fix” her and keep her safe. She is back to rowing and doing investigations again. Her uncle brings her a new client who is […]

Read It Here First

Lady in the Lake by Laura Lippman

April 1, 2019 by Jake Leave a Comment

I won a free ARC from Goodreads in exchange for this review. Thanks Goodreads! Laura Lippman’s been on a bit of a roll with her standalone novels. Wilde Lake was really good and Sunburn is, in my estimation, the best thing she’s ever done. Most of what I loved about reading Lippman’s Tess Monaghan novels growing up was the Baltimore tourism. Being a native of the city, it’s fun to see a bestselling author talk about places I know like they’re real. But her standalone works show how she […]

Full Circle

The Last Place by Laura Lippman

March 25, 2019 by Classic Leave a Comment

Wow. This was really good. We have Tess pulled into an investigation that has her in the crosshairs of someone that wants to show Tess how good he would be for her. That without him, she wouldn’t be who she is now. This whole book is a wonderful look at so many things I don’t even know where to start. With a case that lands Tess into mandatory anger management. With her realizing how great her relationship with her boyfriend is mostly because he’s not […]

Coitus interruptus by SWAT team. At last a form of birth control that was one hundred percent reliable.

Butchers Hill by Laura Lippman

In Big Trouble by Laura Lippman

March 18, 2019 by vel veeter 1 Comment

Butchers Hill In which Tess Monghan learns she’s white, and that there are Black people in Baltimore. So in this book the lead character, Tess, Monaghan, officially opens up her shop in the central Baltimore neighbor hood of Butchers Hill, named not for the butchering of people, we soon learn, but for the old practice of butchers living there. Her first two cases are finding the children who were witnesses to a famous murder/manslaughter from five years earlier in which an older Black man was […]

She didn’t plan on going back into the Patapsco anytime soon.

Baltimore Blues by Laura Lippman

Charm City by Laura Lippman

March 15, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Baltimore Blues – 3 (3.5)/5 There’s something excited about starting a new series and finding something engaging and interesting about it. I love the Wire and when I reviewed another, later Laura Lippman novel, I talked about how I felt like the novel had the feel of the city right. And in some ways, or different ways, it captures more of Baltimore or a different slice of it, also accurately. The thing the Wire was never great at doing was capturing any part of the […]

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