Blogs in July 2019

Lady in the Lake 26th July 2019

Cleo Sherwood disappeared eight months ago. Aside from her parents and the two sons she left behind, no one seems to have noticed. It isn’t hard to understand why: it’s 1964 and neither the police, the public nor the...

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Sunburn 5th September 2018

Meet Polly, which may or may not be her real name, this year’s most dangerous leading lady… They meet by chance in a local bar in a small town in Delaware. Polly is heading west. Adam says he’s also...

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Baltimore Blues 20th May 2018

Until her newspaper, The Baltimore Star, crashed, Tess Monaghan was a first-rate reporter who knew her home town intimately – from historic Fort McHenry to the crumbling projects of Cherry Hill. Now gainfully unemployed at 29 she’s willing to...

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Wilde Lake 23rd March 2016

Luisa ‘Lu’ Brant is the newly elected – and first female – state’s attorney of Howard County, Maryland, a job in which her revered father famously served. Fiercely intelligent and ambitious, she sees an opportunity to make her name...

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Baltimore Noir 1st January 1970

An anthology of stories set in Baltimore,by different writers, with Laura Lippman as editor. Some are noir, some mystery, some crime – every reader will have their favourite.

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