Laura Lippman

'Seasonal Work' is twelve mysteries packed into one book, with the surprises and suspense that have won Laura Lippman publishing awards for twenty-five years. Most focus on kids, marriages and families in Baltimore. We ask her how--and why--she crams so much in.

Like most of Laura Lippman’s novels, her new book is set mostly in Baltimore … and centers on a smart woman with complicated motives. But this protagonist…

Baltimore; summer 1966. Tensions between white and black residents. Some women testing expectations. And then: a woman’s decomposed body turns up in Druid…

Laura Lippman’s latest mystery is called Sunburn -- but it’s not sunny; it’s noir. In the tradition of James M. Cain --The Postman Always Rings Twice --…

In the first few pages of Sunburn, we learn that its main character has walked out on her family--just left her husband and young daughter on a Delaware…