BALTIMORE BLUES by Laura Lippman - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOK

In a city where someone is murdered almost every day, attorney Michael Abramowitz's death should be just another statistic. But the slain lawyer's notorietyƒand his taste for illicit midday trystsƒmakes the case front-page news in every local paper except the Star, which crashed and burned before Abramowitz did.

A former Star reporter who knows every inch of this townƒfrom historic Fort McHenry to the crumbling projects of Cherry Hillƒnow-unemployed journalist Tess Monaghan also knows the primary suspect: cuckolded fiancô Darryl 'Rock' Paxton. The time is ripe for a career move, so when rowing buddy Rock wants to hire her to do some unorthodox snooping to help clear his name, Tess agrees. But there are lethal secrets hiding in the Charm City shadows. And Tess's own name could end up on the ever-expanding list of Baltimore dead.