Laura Lippman

Laura Lippman ( born 1959 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American journalist and author of detective novels with the journalist and private investigator Tess Monaghan as the main character.

Life

Laura Lippman was born in 1959 in Atlanta as the daughter of a journalist and a librarian. The family moved in 1961 in the Washington, DC area and 1965 continue to Baltimore. After school, she studied journalism at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. From 1981, she worked as a journalist at the Tribune - Herald in Waco, Texas, moved in 1983 to the San Antonio Light in San Antonio, Texas. Since 1989, she writes for the Baltimore Sun, where until 1995, her father was employed. Her first novel, Baltimore Blues appeared in 1997. She is married to the writer- producer David Simon.

Awards

Works

→ Baltimore Blues, German by Gerhard Falkner and Nora Matocza; Hamburg: Red Book 2003 ISBN 3-434-53105- X.

→ Charm City, German by Ulrich Hoffmann; Hamburg: Red Book 2003 ISBN 3-434-53117-3.

→ Butchers Hill, German by Ulrich Hoffmann; Hamburg: Red Book 2005 ISBN 3-434-53118-1.

→ In a strange city, German by Gerhard Falkner and Nora Matocza; Hamburg: Red Book 2002 ISBN 3-434-53106-8.

• 2002 The Last Place ( novel)
• Every Secret Thing 2003 (novel)

→ Dangerous Angel, German by Ursula Walther; Berlin: Rütten & Loening, 2006 ISBN 978-3-352-00738-5.

• 2004 By a Spider's Thread ( novel)
• 2005 To the Power of Three (novel)

→ The third girl, German by Ursula Walther; Berlin: Rütten & Loening, 2008 ISBN 978-3-352-00758-3.

• 2006 No Good Deeds (novel)
• 2007 What the Dead Know ( novel)

→ What the dead know, dt Mo Zuber; Munich: Goldmann, 2009 ISBN 978-3-442-46898-0.

• 2008 Another Thing to Fall (novel)
• 2008 Hardly Knew Her ( short stories )
• 2009 Life Sentences (novel)
• 2012 For my soul is your mystery novel ( I'd Know You Anywhere 2010). Psychological thriller. German by Eva Kemper. Goldmann, Munich 2012. 384 S.