
Laura Lippman
Author · 58 books
Since Laura Lippman’s debut, she has been recognized as a distinctive voice in mystery fiction and named one of the “essential” crime writers of the last 100 years. Stephen King called her “special, even extraordinary,” and Gillian Flynn wrote, “She is simply a brilliant novelist.” Her books have won most of the major awards in her field and been translated into more than twenty-five languages. She lives in Baltimore and New Orleans with her teenager.
Series
Books

Mystery Writers of America Presents Death Do Us Part
New Stories about Love, Lust, and Murder
2006

My Life as a Villainess
2020

Dear Penthouse Forum
2008

The Best American Mystery Stories 2014
2014

Dream Girl
2021

Ropa Vieja
2008

The Crack Cocaine Diet
2008

Nasty Girls
Femme Fatale, The Crack Cocaine Diet, Honor Bar, Dear Penthouse Forum
2018

Five Fires
2014

No Good Deeds
2006

In Big Trouble
1999

The Tess Chronicles
Ropa Vieja, The Shoeshine Man's Regrets, and The Accidental Detective
2018

Lady in the Lake
2019

Liza Jane & the Dragon
2018

Twilight Zone
19 original tales on the 50th anniversary
2009

Scratch a Woman
2008

Butchers Hill
1998

The Girl in the Green Raincoat
2011

Charm City
1997

Prom Mom
2023

And When She Was Good
2012

The Sugar House
2000

The Book Thing
2012

Hush Hush
2015

Murder Takes a Vacation
2025

After I'm Gone
2014

Hints of Heloise
Three Stories
2012

Life Sentences
2009

Every Secret Thing
2003

Black-Eyed Susan
2008

The Accidental Detective
2008

I'd Know You Anywhere
2010

Arm and the Woman
2008

To the Power of Three
2005

The Last Place
2002

By a Spider's Thread
2004

Seasonal Work
Stories
2022

Sunburn
2018

Wilde Lake
2016

Slow Burner
2020

The Shoeshine Man's Regrets
2008

Honor Bar
2008

Easy as A-B-C
2008

Christmas Crimes at the Mysterious Bookshop
2024

The Most Dangerous Thing
2011

Femme Fatale and other stories
2008

Tess Monaghan
A Mysterious Profile
2022

Pony Girl
2008

Another Thing to Fall
2008

Hardly Knew Her
2008

What He Needed
2008

What the Dead Know
2007

Baltimore Blues
1997

The Summer of Fall
2023

In a Strange City
2001

One True Love
2008

A Good Fuck Spoiled
2008

The Babysitter's Code
2008