Laura Lippmann is an author of detective fiction born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1959 and raised in Baltimore, Maryland (where she now lives) and went to 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 creating the series of books about Tess Monaghan , a reporter (like Lippman herself) turned private investigator which are set in Baltimore. Her books include:
- 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
She is in literary circle that includes David Simon author of (upon which Homicide: Life on the Street was based) and The Wire, and George Pelecanos. Lippman has won the the Agatha , Anthony , Edgar, Nero Wolfe and Shamus awards
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