Laura Lippman
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Laura Lippman (born 1959) is an American author of detective fiction.
[edit] Biography
Lippmann was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, where she now lives. She attended high school in Columbia, Maryland, where she was the captain of the Wilde Lake High School It's Academic team. She is best known for writing a series of novels set in Baltimore and featuring Tess Monaghan, a reporter (like Lippman herself) turned private investigator.
She is in a literary circle that includes David Simon and George Pelecanos. Lippman has won the Agatha, Anthony, Edgar, Nero Wolfe, and Shamus awards. Her 2003 standalone novel Every Secret Thing has been optioned for the movies by Academy Award-winning actor Frances McDormand.
[edit] Works
- Baltimore Blues
- Charm City
- Butchers Hill
- In Big Trouble
- The Sugar House
- In a Strange City
- Ropa Vieja
- The Last Place
- Every Secret Thing
- Like A Charm
- By A Spider's Thread
- To The Power of Three
