The Sugar House: A Tess Monaghan Mystery - Hardcover

Lippman, Laura

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0380978172 ISBN 13: 9780380978175

Publisher: Avon Books, 2000

Synopsis

When a convicted murderer is himself murdered in prison, the sister of the dead prisoner seeks out Tess Monaghan to unravel the identity of the woman her brother killed, and find an answer to why. 30,000 first printing.

About this title

Book Description:

Tess didn¿t want to take on the case in the first place ¿ and now it¿s getting dangerous ¿ and far too close to home . . .

From the Back Cover:

New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan must solve one of the most baffling murders in her PI career.

When Tess Monaghan agrees to talk to Ruthie Dembrow, she senses she'll regret it. If there's anything Tess has learned in her work both as a newspaper reporter and then as a PI, it's to trust your instincts. Still, she can't deny she's intrigued when Ruthie asks her to investigate the fatal stabbing of her brother, Henry, while he was locked away for murdering a teenage runaway over a bottle of glue. Henry's death at the hands of fellow convicts doesn't surprise Tess, but what does is that he was convicted for murdering a "Jane Doe"--something that rarely happens in the judicial system.

No ID was found on the victim's body, and her fingerprints didn't match up to any in the national database. How could anyone escape all the identity nets of the modern world? Ruthie is convinced if she learns the identity of her brother's victim, maybe she can also find out why he was killed.

Tess's search takes her on a harrowing journey from Baltimore's exclusive Inner Harbor to the seedy neighborhood of Locust Point. But it's the shocking discovery of the runaway's true identity that turns Tess's hunt deadly. Suddenly, her supposedly solved murder case keeps turning up newer, fresher corpses and scarier versions of the Sugar House--places that look so sweet and safe, but only from the outside.

About this edition

• Publisher: Avon Books
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0380978172
• ISBN 13: 9780380978175
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 306