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One of the most acclaimed novelists in America today, Laura Lippman has greatly expanded the boundaries of mystery fiction and psychological suspense with her Tess Monaghan p.i. series and her New York Times bestselling standalone novels ( What the Dead Know, Life Sentences, I’d Know You Anywhere, etc.). With The Most Dangerous Thing, the ...
Laura Lippman (born January 31, 1959) is an American journalist and author of over 20 detective fiction novels. Her novels have won multiple awards, including an Agatha Award, seven Anthony Awards, two Barry Awards, an Edgar Award, a Gumshoe Award, a Macavity Award, a Nero Award, two Shamus Awards, and two Strand Critics Award.
Since the publication of her first novel in 1997, Laura Lippman has won virtually every major award given to U.S. crime writings, including the Edgar Award, Anthony Award, Agatha Award, Nero Wolfe Award, Shamus Award, and the Quill Award. She is a New York Times bestseller.
In addition to her work on this series, totaling 11 books to date, Lippman has also published eight standalone novels, as well as numerous short stories. For her work in fiction, Lippman was granted the Edgar ®, The Agatha, The Anthony, The Nero Wolfe, Gumeshoe, The Shamus, and Barry awards.
Photo by Jan Cobb. Laura Lippman was a reporter for twenty years, including twelve years at The (Baltimore) Sun. She began writing novels while working fulltime and published seven books about “accidental PI” Tess Monaghan before leaving daily journalism in 2024.
Feb 13, 2018 · Stephen King called her “special, even extraordinary,” and Gillian Flynn wrote, “She is simply a brilliant novelist.”. Her books have won most of the major awards in her field and been translated into more than twenty-five languages. She lives in Baltimore and New Orleans with her teenager.
Baltimore. <p>Laura Lippman is a bestselling and award-winning writer of detective fiction. She has published 20 books – the Tess Monaghan series, seven stand-alones and a collection of short...
Jul 18, 2019 · July 18, 2019. Lady in the Lake. By Laura Lippman. In a 1945 essay in which he dismissed most detective and mystery fiction as little better than crossword puzzles, the critic Edmund Wilson...
Jul 20, 2023 · Laura Lippman's latest thriller, 'Prom Mom,' follows the long aftermath of a high-school pregnancy scandal — and pays homage to L.A.'s James M. Cain.
Jul 25, 2023 · Laura Lippman, the prolific crime novelist whose latest book, Prom Mom, is released on July 25, taught me the importance of reading the acknowledgments. To promote her previous novel, 2021’s Dream Girl, Lippman talked on a podcast about a novel called Heritage that influenced her claustrophobic meta tale of a writer who is being stalked.
