In a Strange City

I really liked this mystery, even if I had some of it unraveled early in... I loved the setting of the Poe Visitor and always enjoy when classic literature meets current fiction. And as always, the main characters never fail to keep me turning the pages... on to the next Tess book in the series. (Rev......more

Kinda plodding entry in the series. These are meant to be page turners and it's frustrating when not enough happens to keep me turning the page. Lumpen.......more

Maybe a 2.5 because the writing is good, the characterizations are mostly excellent, the premise was interesting, BUT I found the plot so transparent that I guessed the whodunit quite early on and much of the whydunit. As a result, the ending was flat and not particularly inspiring. The other plot e......more

I have read a two Laura Lippmann stand alones before, but never anything from her Tess Monaghan series until now. In a Strange City is no. 6 in the sequence and while there were obvious references to the previous books, they didn’t impede the story or the introduction of the characters at all IMO. B......more

January in Baltimore can only mean one thing – the annual visit to Edgar Allan Poe’s final resting place by the Poe Toaster, an anonymous person, dressed in cape and scarf, who leaves three roses and a half-full bottle of cognac at the grave on Poe’s birthday. PI Tess Monaghan gets embroiled in the......more