Tess Monaghan Mysteries (Paperback): Baltimore Blues (Paperback)

from EmScape

Tess Monaghan has been at loose ends since being let go from her job as a reporter when the paper she was working for folded. She does odd jobs for various relatives, including her Aunt Kitty, whose bookstore she works in and lives above. When a friend of hers, Rock, offers to pay her to follow h...

from rainpebble

Another fun Laura Lippman P.I. whodunit. I really enjoy these. They are relaxing, interesting & fun reads. The main character, Tess Monaghan, ex-reporter turned P.I. is hired by her friend Rock, to tail his girlfriend. She has changed in the last few months and he is worried about her and wants t...

from cathyskye

First Line: On the last night of August, Tess Monaghan went to the drugstore and bought a composition book-- one with a black-and-white marble cover. After her paper, The Baltimore Star, folded, reporter Tess Monaghan endures jobless months by putting in hours of rowing on the river and by puttin...

from abcarroll

Tess is an out of work reporter who sort of falls into the roll of private investigator. She starts by trying to help a friend and ends up in way over her head. She is a smart character though and I enjoyed the way she was portrayed in the book. The book had some great surprises in the plot and I...

from DeltaQueen50

I feel like I have just met a new friend. She loves books, in fact works part-time in her aunts' bookstore, and has even been heard to say that she would get married in a library if she could. Her career as a journalist didn't go far, but she seems to be having better luck with trying her hand as...