Girl in the Green Raincoat: A Tess Monaghan Novel
By (Author) Laura Lippman
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Collins
1st March 2011
United States
General
Fiction
Crime and mystery fiction
FIC
Paperback
176
Width 140mm, Height 202mm, Spine 15mm
142g
Lippman is a writing powerhouse.
USA Today
I love her books.
Harlan Coben
New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippmanwinner of the Edgar Award and every other major literary prize given for mystery and crime fictionembroils Baltimore p.i. Tess Monaghan in the strange case of The Girl in the Green Raincoat. Originally serialized in the New York Times, The Girl in the Green Raincoat is now in book form for the very first timea masterful thriller in the Alfred Hitchcock mode that places a very pregnant, homebound Tess in the center of a murderous puzzle that could cost her her life and the life of her unborn child.
Laura Lippman was a reporter for twenty years, including twelve years at the Baltimore Sun. Her novels have won almost every prize given for crime fiction in the United States, including the Edgar, Anthony, Nero Wolfe and Agatha awards. She lives in Baltimore with her husband, the writer David Simon who created hit TV series The Wire and Homicide: Life on the Street.