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Once Tess Monaghan starts snooping in her case as a private investigator, the witnesses start dying. Like it or not, Tess is embroiled in a case that encompasses the powers-that-be, a heartless system that has destroyed the lives of children, and a nasty trail of money and lies leading all the way back to Butchers Hill.
I received this book for free from in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Charm Cityby Laura Lippman mystery, private investigator in a paperback edition that was published by Avon Publications on October 1, 1997 and has 304 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include The Girl in the Green Raincoat, Baltimore Blues, Butchers Hill, In Big Trouble, Games Creatures PlaySecond in the Tess Monaghan mystery series set in Baltimore, Maryland and revolving around a former journalist turned private detective. My Take The primary theme is one of betrayal. Betrayal of one’s ethics and of friends. Using and manipulating friends to help is one thing; doing it to achieve one’s personal goals is another. A preponderance of the latter weighs very heavily in Charm City from a battering of journalistic ethics, making that career leap, destruction of lives to maintain past secrets, and hiding one’s primal enjoyment of the kill. Most of which can be traced to one man’s pride. Lippman keeps the action moving forward as Tess tells the story with some of my guesses teetering wildly […]