CHARM CITY by Laura Lippman - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOK
See all titles by Laura Lippman.As a practiced reporter until her newspaper went to that great
pressroom in the sky, P.I. Tess Monaghan knows and loves every inch of
her native Baltimore, even the parts being slobbered on by the sad-sack
greyhound she's minding for her uncle. It's a quirky city where
baseball reigns, but lately homicide seems to be the second most
popular local sport. Business tycoon "Wink" Wynkowski is trying to
change all that by bringing pro basketball back to town, and
everybody's rooting fro him — until a devastating, muckraking expose of
his lurid past appears on the front page of the Baltimore Beacon-Light.
It's a
surprise even to the Blight's editors, who thought
they'd killed the piece. Instead, the piece killed Wink — who's found
in his garage with the car running.
Now the Blight wants to nail
the unknown computer hacker who planted the lethal story, and the
assignment is right up the alley of a former newshound like Tess. But
it doesn't take long for her to discover deeper, darker secrets, and to
realize that this situation is really more about whacking than hacking.
It's just murder in Baltimore these days — and Tess Monaghan herself
might be next on the list.
As a practiced reporter until her
newspaper went to that great pressroom in the sky, P.I. Tess Monaghan
knows and loves every inch of her native Baltimore, even the parts
being slobbered on by the sad-sack greyhound she's minding for her
uncle. It's a quirky city where baseball reigns, but lately homicide
seems to be the second most popular local sport. Business tycoon "Wink"
Wynkowski is trying to change all that by bringing pro basketball back
to town, and everybody's rooting for him — untila devastating,
muckraking expose of his lurid past appears on the front page of the
Baltimore Beacon-Light. It's a surprise even to the Blight's editors,
who thought they'd killed the piece. Instead, the piece killed Wink —
who's found in his garage with the car running.
Now the Blight
wants to nail the unknown computer hacker who planted the lethal story,
and the assignment is right up the alley of a former newshound like
Tess. But it doesn't take long for her to discover deeper, darker
secrets, and to realize that this situation is really more about
whacking than hacking. It's just murder in Baltimore these days — and
Tess Monaghan herself might be next on the list.
