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Title: The Last Place (Wheeler Large Print Hardcover Series) by Laura Lippman, Ross King ISBN: 1587244179 Publisher: Wheeler Pub Pub. Date: April, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.78
Rating: 5
Summary: Another Tess Monaghan mystery
Comment: The novel starts out with an interesting prelude to the main story when Tess and her friend Whitney defoliate a would be rapist. From there the story progresses to the main plot about a serial killer with a strange compulsion. Tess and a new found associate link together a number of seemingly unrelated homicides, including a disappearance and an "accidental" death from the distant past. Details of her own past emerge, partly from discussions with a psychiatrist she is seeing as part of a plea bargain agreement.
Tess still has her boyfriend, Crow, and her two dogs, but they play minor roles. She bumbles about a bit, and almost gets herself killed in the manner of independent investigators created by various authors. There are some side details of Baltimore, Maryland's eastern shore, etc., and a view of some of the sleazy underside of life.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Mystery With a Mystery
Comment: From the beginning page you are introduced to the killer and the knowledge that he is watching someone again stays in the front of your mind as you get to know him better. His history and his thoughts are sprinkled throughout the book and lead you to "The Last Place."
Tess is a private investigator with a past that haunts her. Her ex-boyfriend was killed years prior and she continues to suffer from occasional nightmares, reliving his death.
She has issues with anger management, which are portrayed quite well when she gets a little revenge on a potential child molester. She is arrested and sentenced to anger management counseling.
Tess's wealthy friend, Whitney, offers her a private investigator assignment which involves reviewing old, unsolved domestic abuse murder cases in order to help bring about lobbying for funding and training for small town cops handling domestic abuse situations. Whitney is part of a group of several non profit foundations that have joined together and are in search of ways to reduce the number of domestic-violence homicides in their state. Though Tess's old archenemy, Luisa O'Neal, is somewhat involved in the group, Tess accepts the assignment with the understanding that Luisa is not an active member of the board.
There is a list of five unsolved cases for Tess to investigate. She was not hired to search for the killer but rather to check into the specifics of the police investigations on each file.
Initially, the cases do not seem connected but then Tess begins to question whether or not they are in some way. She always begins to wonder if Luisa O'Neal had more involvement in this project than Tess was told about, or anyone was told, for that matter. Soon Tess is questioning everything and everyone looking for the link.
You will find yourself flipping back through the pages you've already read, checking details, looking for confirmation of the places the clues are leading you. Just when you think you're sure you know who the killer is, another clue is added that doesn't quite fit in and you are sent on your search again. You will be guessing until the end.
Rating: 4
Summary: Bodies and no Clue
Comment: Tess Monaghan (very poor) is a private investigator who is hired by her best friend Whitney Talbot (very rich). She is asked to work for a consortium that concerns itself with domestic violence. Tess is given six names of persons who have been killed in the last six years. None of the killings were solved. Tess is to find out if law enforcement did a sloppy - and presumably prejudiced - job.
So Tess goes to work, interrupting it only shortly to spend time with her boyfriend Crow. At first, nothing outrageous happens. She then teams up with retired Toll Road Police Officer Carl Dewitt.
The story is interrupted occasionally by the voice of the killer.
There just is no substitute for that vision thing when you want to reach conclusions that are not based on any known fact. And what is missing here is the kitchen sink. But then the author got a big medal from the mayor of Baltimore for writing so much about his city.
And the perpetrator became a mass murderer because he used to love Tess Monaghan. Go figure.
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Title: In a Strange City by Laura Lippman ISBN: 0380810239 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Sugar House: A Tess Monaghan Mystery by Laura Lippman ISBN: 0380810220 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 31 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Charm City by Laura Lippman ISBN: 0380788764 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Baltimore Blues by Laura Lippman ISBN: 0380788756 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: February, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: In Big Trouble by Laura Lippman ISBN: 0380798476 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 07 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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