Tess Monaghan Novel Charm City: A Tess Monaghan Novel, Book 2, (Paperback)

from EmScape

Tess Monaghan is a former journalist and part-time unlicensed investigator for a law firm. She's called in to investigate how someone slipped an unauthorized story into the Beacon Light newspaper, and agrees because she'd like to use their resources to figure out why her uncle got beat up so bad ...

from nbmars

In Book Two of the Tess Monaghan Detective Series, we find the 5'9" twenty-nine year old working as an investigator for her rowing friend/lawyer, Tyner Gray. The series is set in Baltimore, known [in real life] as "Charm City" since 1974 when the Baltimore Promotion Council decided to enhance the...

from AliceAnna

I really liked this author -- not jut the Baltimore connection or the greyhound tie-in either (actually the climax of the greyhound subplot sickened me), but I liked the feisty Tess. I will definitely read more of her (and I hope Eskay makes his presence known as well).

from cyderry

This the second installment in Tess Monaghan series about an ex-reporter accidentally turned private detective. The series is set in Baltimore and the city life that is described throughout is charming - hence Charm City. Tess in this book is trying to investigate an unusual newspaper story that ...

from miyurose

This second book in the series made yet another enjoyable listen. Lippman manages to make Baltimore just as much a character as Tess or her Aunt Kitty. And Deborah Hazlett's narration doesn't hurt - her Baltimore accent is spot-on. Tess herself isn't the greatest private investigator, which I gue...