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Title details for No Good Deeds by Laura Lippman - Available

No Good Deeds

#9 in series

by Laura Lippman
Linda Emond
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"Tess is better than ever" raves Kirkus Reviews of this thrilling mystery from best-selling author Laura Lippman, winner of every major prize in crime fiction. When P.I. Tess Monaghan learns that a mysterious teenager has information about the murder of a U.S. Attorney, she leaks the information to the media. But then an associate of the teen is murdered, and the feds threaten Tess with jail time unless she reveals her source. ". nail-biting suspense ."-Booklist

  • Creators

  • Series

    Tess Monaghan

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    August 3, 2006

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781449896829
      • File size: 272550 KB
      • Duration: 09:27:48

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Linda Emond does a beautiful Southern accent, even if it sounds more genteel than ghetto. Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan's boyfriend, Crow, is on the run with a homeless black teenaged boy he's befriended. Emond is a little wide of the mark on Lloyd, and on some of Maryland cracker types they meet. But this does nothing to slow down the expertly plotted action as Tess tries to stay a jump ahead of the villains and Lippman two jumps ahead of the reader; both succeed handily. I particularly like Emond's Wilma Yousif, grieving widow of a high-profile murder victim, whom you somehow know instantly is mean as a snake. Pace and production are terrific, too. B.G. (c) AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 15, 2006
      Smartly plotted and paced, Lippman's ninth Tess Monaghan novel (after By a Spider's Thread
      ) opens with a somewhat unlikely scenario: Tess's boyfriend, Edgar "Crow" Ransome, brings home for the night a homeless teenager, Lloyd, who slashed Crow's tires outside a Baltimore soup kitchen. When PI Tess discovers that Lloyd has information regarding the recent murder of Assistant U.S. Attorney Gregory Youssef, Tess gives his story, sans name, to the local paper, so the authorities will get it secondhand. After a crony of Lloyd's is murdered instead of Lloyd, Tess receives her first visit from a sinister trio of law enforcement agents avid to know her source. Crow flees with Lloyd while Tess suffers growing pressure, including the threat of federal jail time. Baltimore itself is the book's most compelling character, its uneasy mix of aspiration and decay perfectly suited to Lippman's ironic voice. Crow is the book's weakest link; even a late revelation about his motives fails to make his sudden paternalism toward Lloyd believable. Happily, Lippman's loyal fans won't mind. Author tour.

    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 4, 2006
      Emond has played some amazing characters in the past; her brilliant performance in Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul
      won her an Obie Award. But she is mismatched for No Good Deeds
      . Lippman's new crime novel commences with a prologue by Crow, Tess Monaghan's boyfriend. The juxtaposition of male narrator and female voice is rather jarring, but mercifully brief. Emond's strongest suit is her performance of the narrative itself, filled as it is with Lippman's intimate knowledge of South Baltimore and its denizens. Unfortunately, the characters themselves are barely distinguishable: white, black, mature or young—they sound alike. Perhaps Emond was puzzled about how to handle the novel's bizarre plotting—for instance, Crow's insistence on taking home with him the youth who has slashed his tire. It's hard to pay attention to tracking the intricacies of a crime novel when you fear the sleuths need therapy. Perhaps the author is as much off here as the performer. Baltimore crime buffs might opt for a rerun of The Wire
      instead. Simultaneous release with the Morrow hardcover (Reviews, May 15).

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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