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Laura Lippman

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About this author

Laura Lippman was a reporter for twenty years, including twelve years at The (Baltimore) Sun. She began writing novels while working fulltime and published seven books about “accidental PI” Tess Monaghan before leaving daily journalism in 2001. Her work has been awarded the Edgar ®, the Anthony, the Agatha, the Shamus, the Nero Wolfe, Gumshoe and Barry awards. She also has been nominated for other prizes in the crime fiction field, including the Hammett and the Macavity. She was the first-ever recipient of the Mayor’s Prize for Literary Excellence and the first genre writer recognized as Author of the Year by the Maryland Library Association.

Ms. Lippman grew up in Baltimore and attended city schools through ninth grade. After graduating f...more


Average rating: 3.49 · 54,615 ratings · 7,971 reviews · 63 distinct works · Similar authors
I'd Know You Anywhere
3.45 of 5 stars 3.45 avg rating — 9,849 ratings — published 2010 — 23 editions
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To the Power of Three
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 1,839 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions
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January 2011, Laura Lippman
"Her Favorite Crime Novels: Pregnant P.I. Tess Monaghan is stuck on bed rest but still fighting crime in The Girl in the Green Raincoat. The author shares her favorite crime novels to read in bed." ...More

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"Readers can do whatever they want. As far as I'm concerned, readers are my bosses. When I tour, I tell myself I'm a traveling salesman paying calls on...more "
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My 2 cents on research: It can become a way of not writing. I heard Donald Westlake say that he became a fiction writer so "I ca...more
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I have found my editor -- and I have had the same one for all my books -- to have a very light touch. I have close to total freedom, but I have...more
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The story that inspired What the Dead Know happened when I was a teenager, not much older than the girls who disappeared (the Lyon sisters) and l...more
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“Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.”
Laura Lippman, What the Dead Know

“There's always time to read. Don't trust a writer who doesn't read. It's like eating food prepared by a cook who doesn't eat.”
Laura Lippman

“She might not be as strong as everyone she met, or as fast, or even as smart. But she could bullshit with the best of them. Combine that with a license to carry, and a girl could more than get by in this life.”
Laura Lippman, By a Spider's Thread

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October Author Read: Some Scary Sh**

Vote for who we will read in October. Choose one of the listed authors, or add one of your own----please be sure the one you want to add is not already on the list. And please make sure the nominated author has at least a few books to choose from.

I'm looking for authors that do scary, spooky, gory, grisly, creepy, crime, deviant, deranged, chiller, thriller, killer or any other thing that fits this category. I want some real scary stuff here! More than a cozy mystery or a classic.

You can change your vote anytime before the poll closes. So if you've voted, and someone adds an author you want to change your vote to, feel free. 

 
  27 votes, 25.2%

Stephen King (write-in)
 
  25 votes, 23.4%

Ray Bradbury
 
  10 votes, 9.3%

 
  8 votes, 7.5%

Chelsea Cain (write-in)
 
  8 votes, 7.5%

Jeffery Deaver (write-in)
 
  6 votes, 5.6%

Ted Dekker - the Boogey Man himself (write-in)
 
  6 votes, 5.6%

 
  5 votes, 4.7%

Preston and Child together- Relic, Reliquary, so on (write-in)
 
  3 votes, 2.8%

David Wellington (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 1.9%

justin cronin (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 1.9%

Jo Nesbo (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 1.9%

Robert Aickman (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.9%

 
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Tana French (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.9%

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