A trade paperback collection of 16 short stories, some new, some published before, all together for the first time, featuring Tess Monaghan, New York Times Bestselling author Laura Lippman's acclaimed private eye For the first time together in one collection is a mix of brand new Tess Monaghan short mysteries as well as previously published, award-winning short stories. Split into three parts-Girls Gone Wild (seven stories about girls behaving badly); Other Cities, Not My Own (four stories about places outside of Baltimore); My Baby Walks the Streets of Baltimore (four stories and a profile)-the inimitable Tess Monaghan, along with some old friends and new faces, is back solving crime.

Easy as A-B-C

Coups de feu au lycée Elles étaient les trois meilleures amies d'une banlieue chic de Baltimore et devaient entrer à l'université. Perri et Josie baignent dans leur sang, gravement blessées, à côté de Kat, morte d'une balle dans la poitrine, un revolver à la main. Que cachait leur relation en apparence idéale ?Quand le crime et le mensonge ont raison de la famille et de l'amitié, et mènent inexorablement au drame Un suspense psychologique subtil et intense aux multiples rebondissements.

Celle qui devait mourir

Un beau brun fait escale dans le bar d'un minuscule bled du Delaware. Il est aussitôt séduit par une rousse dont le corps incendiaire contraste avec l'attitude glaciale. Les deux héros, surgis d'on ne sait où, s'attirent et se repoussent comme deux aimants. Pourquoi jouent-ils ainsi au chat et à la souris, sous l'oeil placide de deux habitués du bar et le regard jaloux de la serveuse ? Avec ce vingt-troisième roman, Laura Lippman reprend des marqueurs du noir classique (l'inconnue sexy qui débarque en ville, le privé bien de sa personne, la fraude à l'assurance, le sexe torride et l'été meurtrier) dans une intrigue résolument moderne. Elle signe un thriller ramassé et inlâchable.

Corps inflammables

Laura Lippman, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Most Dangerous Thing, I'd Know You Anywhere, and What the Dead Know, returns with an addictive story that explores how one man's disappearance echoes through the lives of the wife, mistress, and daughters he left behind. When Felix Brewer meets Bernadette "Bambi" Gottschalk at a Valentine's Dance in 1959, he charms her with wild promises, some of which he actually keeps. Thanks to his lucrative-if not all legal-businesses, she and their three little girls live in luxury. But on the Fourth of July, 1976, Bambi's comfortable world implodes when Felix, newly convicted and facing prison, mysteriously vanishes. Though Bambi has no idea where her husband-or his money-might be, she suspects one woman does: his mistress, Julie. When Julie disappears ten years to the day that Felix went on the lam, everyone assumes she's left to join her old lover-until her remains are eventually found. Now, twenty-six years after Julie went missing, Roberto "Sandy" Sanchez, a retired Baltimore detective working cold cases for some extra cash, is investigating her murder. What he discovers is a tangled web stretching over three decades that connects five intriguing women. And at the center is the missing man Felix Brewer. Somewhere between the secrets and lies connecting past and present, Sandy will find the truth. And when he does, no one will ever be the same.

After I'm Gone - A Novel

An African-American man accused of rape by a humiliated girl.  A vengeful father.  A courageous attorney.  A worshipful daughter.  Think you know this story?  Think again. Laura Lippman, the "extravagantly gifted" (Chicago Tribune) New York Times bestselling author, delivers "one of her best novels " (Washington Post)-a modern twist on To Kill a Mockingbird. Scott Turow writes in the New York Times, "Wilde Lake is a real success."Luisa "Lu" Brant is the newly elected state's attorney representing suburban Maryland-including the famous planned community of Columbia, created to be a utopia of racial and economic equality. Prosecuting a controversial case involving a disturbed drifter accused of beating a woman to death, the fiercely ambitious Lu is determined to avoid the traps that have destroyed other competitive, successful women. She's going to play it smart to win this case-and win big-cementing her political future. But her intensive preparation for trial unexpectedly dredges up painful recollections of another crime-the night when her brother, AJ, saved his best friend at the cost of another man's life. Only eighteen, AJ was cleared by a grand jury. Justice was done. Or was it? Did the events of 1980 happen as she remembers them? She was only a child then. What details didn't she know? As she plunges deeper into the past, Lu is forced to face a troubling reality. The legal system, the bedrock of her entire life, does not have all the answers. But what happens when she realizes that, for the first time, she doesn't want to know the whole truth?

Wilde Lake - A Novel

Au coeur des Etats-Unis, au lycée de Glendale, Josie, Perri et Kat nouent une amitié quasi fusionnelle. L'athlète, l'actrice rebelle et la beauté fatale deviennent bientôt le trio le plus célèbre du lycée. Mais le dernier jour de classe, des coups de feu éclatent. Et quand la police force la porte des toilettes, Perri et Josie baignent dans leur sang tandis que Kat est étendue plus loin, morte d'une balle en pleine poitrine. Qu'a-t-il bien pu se passer pour qu'une telle amitié bascule ainsi dans l'horreur ?

Every Secret Thing is a riveting story of love and murder, guilt and innocence, adult sins and childhood darkness. Two little girls banished from a neighborhood birthday party take a wrong turn down an unfamiliar Baltimore street-and encounter an abandoned stroller with an infant inside. What happens next is shocking and terrible, and three families are irreparably destroyed. Seven years later, Alice Manning and Ronnie Fuller, now eighteen, are released from "kid prison" to begin their lives over again. But the secrets swirling around the original crime continue to haunt the parents, the lawyers, the police-all the adults in Alice and Ronnie's lives. And now another child has disappeared, under freakishly similar circumstances ...

Every Secret Thing

Héloïse Lewis est une jeune femme dynamique et courageuse, admirée de ses voisines dans sa charmante banlieue de Baltimore. Veuve avant la naissance de son enfant, elle demeure une mère attentive tout en exerçant avec talent son métier de lobbyiste. Et, pour certains hommes riches du quartier, elle est surtout celle qui leur fournit des accompagnatrices nocturnes. Mais, alors que l'une des filles qu'elle emploie veut la faire chanter, une autre est retrouvée assassinée. Sur les lieux du crime, tous les indices convergent vers un dangereux criminel qu'Héloïse a bien connu autrefois... Le père de son fils ? Sans diplôme, sans famille et sans réels amis, elle va devoir agir vite pour préserver les apparences.

Corps coupable - Occasion

Seven deliciously dark, funny and twisted short stories from one of America's top crime writers.

 EXCLUSIVE EBOOK EDITION ALSO INCLUDES A FREE EXTRACT FROM LAURA'S FORTHCOMING NOVEL THE INNOCENTS.

 If you haven't discovered Laura Lippman yet, delve into these seven ingenious tales and read an exclusive extract from Laura's latest novel The Innocents.

 In this short story collection we are taken back to richly drawn 1975 where we meet Sofia and her degenerate gambling father in 'Hardly Knew Her'; and in 'Femme Fatale' we are introduced to sixty-eight year old Mona who suddenly finds herself in a rather surprising situation.

 Sometimes poignant, sometimes humorous and always filled with shocking twists and turns, expect the unexpected.

 If you enjoy this collection, why not try 'The Accidental Detective and other stories'. Also available now as an exclusive ebook short story collection.

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