“I am being held hostage,” Tess Monaghan whispered into her iPhone. “By a terrorist…..”
So begins, The Girl in the Green Raincoat and you instantly get the impression this is going to be a GOOD book! In the third trimester of her pregnancy, Baltimore private investigator Tess Monaghan is under doctor’s orders to remain immobile. Bored and restless, reduced to watching the world go by outside her window, she takes small comfort in the mundane events she observes . . . like the young woman in a green raincoat who walks her dog at the same time every day. Then one day the dog is running free and its owner is nowhere to be seen. Certain that something is terribly wrong, and incapable of leaving well enough alone, Tess is determined to get to the bottom of the dog walker’s abrupt disappearance, even if she must do so from her own bedroom. But her inquisitiveness is about to fling open a dangerous Pandora’s box of past crimes and troubling deaths . . . and she’s not only putting her own life in jeopardy but also her unborn child’s.
Previously serialized in the New York Times, and now published in book form for the very first time, The Girl in the Green Raincoat is a masterful Hitchcockian thriller from one of the very best in the business: multiple award-winner Laura Lippman.
Laura Lippman is a former reporter for the Baltimore Sun. Along with Baltimore, she seems to have a fondness for Chicago and I read a few funny stories about my hometown while researching her biography! She also values her privacy – and her personal life – good for you, Laura.
According to her Facebook Fan Page, Laura has written fifteen books and received numerous awards for her writing. Laura’s work has been awarded the Edgar®, the Anthony, the Agatha, the Shamus, the Nero Wolfe, Gumshoe and Barry awards. She also has been nominated for other prizes in the crime fiction field, including the Hammett and the Macavity. She was the first-ever recipient of the Mayor’s Prize for Literary Excellence and the first genre writer recognized as Author of the Year by the Maryland Library Association.
“ Lippman is a writing powerhouse.” ~ USA Today
“The publication of a new book by Luara Lippman… is always a cause for celebration.” ~ Chicago Sun-Times
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All of her books sound really good. I’m surprised I haven’t read her before. I’d like to read What the Dead Know.
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All her books sound AMAZING, but I would love to also read The Last Place and The Sugar House :)
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I’ve never read any of her books, but she sounds great! A book from her site I think sounds interesting is The Sugar House.
The Sugar House is about a Jane Doe” case. A girl was killed, her killer was caught — but the identity of the girl has never been established.
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All her books sound great! By A Spider’s Thread sounds interesting (:
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She wrote The last Day of School. I read a lot but haven’t read one by this author yet. Thanks for the wonderful giveaway
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Laura’s 15th novel I’d Know You Anywhere was published on August 17th and was of Amazon’s top ten books for August!
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Wow, she’s written quite a few books. A lot of the books sounds really good, but, I think I’d like to read By A Spider’s Thread.
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Many of her books feature a character named Tess Monaghan, and all of her books that I’ve read are GREAT! I’m dying to read this new one!!
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I really want to read I’D KNOW YOU ANYWHERE. The summary sounds great!
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What the Dead Know is about two sisters kidnapped years ago and then a woman involved in a hit and run claims to be one of them.
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What the Dead Know-sounds good
the book Baltimore Blues is the first Tess Monaghan novel and it’s inspired by a time of recession (just like now!)
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The Girl in the Green Raincoat sounds like a good book. I have never read anything by this author.
In Big Trouble sounds great about a mysterious letter.
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So glad you liked the book! I agree that Laura Lippman is great at setting a scene. Really helps you lose yourself in her books. :)
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“To The Power of Three” is about 3 girls who’ve been best friends since 3rd grade. On the last day of high school one of them brings in a gun. All 3 are shot and 1 of them is killed. Who did it? Why?
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I can’t believe how many awards Laura has won…amazing! “Every Secret Thing” won an Anthony and a Barry Award and has a truly compelling plot about 2 young girls and detective Nancy Porter.
Another book by Laura Lippman is “I’d Know you Anywhere” about a woman who’s simple life is changed when she hears from her kidnapper (from when she was younger) as he tries to make ammends while he’s on death row.
It sounds very interesting!
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All of Laura Lippman’s books sound interesting. I would like to read “Every Secret Thing”. :-)
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I have read Laura Lippman’s work before, I read “What The Dead Know”, and it was quite the psychological thriller – although some of the underlying issues were quite dark. Ultimately, it was a fast-paced, thrilling read, and I would love to read “The Girl in the Green Coat” by Laura Lippman! :)
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In “Every Secret Thing” two girls were banished from a birthday party and on their way home they find a baby in a stroller abandoned. Doesnt say what happened to the baby but its kind of a mystery but it does sound like something went wrong.
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I’d Know You Anywhere was published in August, 2010. I would like to read that book since it sounds like a suspenseful thriller.
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The Sugar House was nominated for best P.I. novel by the Romantic Times. it was also cited as one of the best mystery novels of the year by the Washington Post, the London Times, the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel and Amazon.com.
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I really love laura Lippman. Two of my favorites are Every Secret Thing and What the Dead Know.
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Huge Laura Lippman fan here. One of my faves? The Power of the Three, a disturbing chronicle of 3 best friends whose lives are torn apart by violence in one hellish morning. Laura captures the human psyche in all its amazing, startling, and disturbing glory better than almost any author I have read and I read ravenously. Check out I’d Know You Anywhere, her book that came out last summer. It’s a dark, harrowing story of a woman who survived being kidnapped 15 years prior and the man who tries to draw her back in as his execution nears. It’s my favorite work of hers and sure to enthrall! Thanks for this contest.
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Baltimore Blues is another one of her books
The Sugar House sounds like a good one!
Laura Lippman also wrote “Like A Charm”
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