The Sugar House

The Sugar House is the fifth novel in Laura Lippman’s Tess Monaghan series. Tess is a former newspaper reporter turned Private Investigator. She is also my kind of female human: adventurous to the point of nearly fearless, rebellious in the face of authority, likes men for both love and sex, struggl......more

Another great read... Lippman's books just keep getting better and better in her Tess Monaghan series.........more

Book # 5 in the Tess Monaghan series has the former reporter turned private investigator taking on a job as a favor to her Dad. Ruthie is a waitress whose younger brother Henry died in prison after confessing to killing a girl. The girl was never identified, but Ruthie thinks that perhaps her brothe......more

A really excellent entry in this series. It feels like all the groundwork Lippman laid is paying off: Tess's family, love life, & career are firing. It's not that they're running smoothly. There's turbulence on two of those fronts. But it all feels very organic. For example: I remember being turned......more

If I hadn't already purchased this, I might never have read another Tess Monaghan story after the last one. Which is lucky, because this was several degrees smarter. I'm not sure I can think of another series where the quality of the entries has been so varied - Block's Scudder books, perhaps. This w......more