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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.
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.).
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.
1 day ago · Lippman is a Baltimore native and former reporter at the Baltimore Sun. As a child, she read about Esther Lebowitz , an 11-year-old girl who in 1969 went missing and was later found dead.
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 · Since Laura Lippman’s debut, she has been recognized as a distinctive voice in mystery fiction and named one of the “essential” crime writers of the last 100 years. Stephen King called her “special, even extraordinary,” and Gillian Flynn wrote, “She is simply a brilliant novelist.”
23 hours ago · Laura Lippman and her daughter headed up to New York last week for the big premiere of the Apple TV+ version of her 2019 novel “Lady In The Lake.” They got all done up by “the glam squad,” she recalled, then rubbed shoulders with stars Natalie Portman and Moses Ingram at the Museum of Arts and Design, in a crowd of about 200 people.
Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman’s Tess Monaghan—first introduced in the classic Baltimore Blues— must protect an up-and-coming Hollywood actress, but when murder strikes on a TV set, the unflappable PI discovers everyone’s got a secret.
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 18, 2019 · 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 asked a question that still rankles...
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