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Retired FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong speaks with award-winning novelist Laura Lippman, author of the bestselling novel Lady in the Lake and the Tess Monaghan detective series, to discuss her career as a crime fiction writer. Pulling from her experience as a former journalist and Baltimore native, Laura has captivated audiences with stories of mystery, murder, and suspense. Candice and Laura discuss how she got her start in the world of crime fiction, how her real-world experiences have shaped her writing, and what readers can expect from her upcoming work.To learn more about Murder Takes a Vacation, visit https://www.harpercollins.com/products/murder-takes-a-vacation-laura-lippman?variant=43146941235234Be the first to know about Wondery's newest podcasts, curated recommendations, and more! Sign up now at https://wondery.fm/wonderynewsletterNeed more Killer Psyche? With Wondery+, enjoy exclusive episodes, early access to new ones, and they're always ad-free. Start your free trial in the Wondery App or visit wondery.app.link/TI5l5KzpDLb now.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Laura Lippman is an Edgar Award-winning author of detective fiction, most famously for the Tess Monaghan series. And this summer, she has a new book on the New York Times Best Seller list called “Lady in the Lake.” Kurt Andersen recently visited Baltimore to talk to her for another story we’re working on: an American Icons hour about the tales of Edgar Allan Poe. Poe is best known for his gothic tales and poems, but he also wrote what are considered by many to be the first detective stories. As a mystery writer and lifelong Baltimore resident, Laura gave us her take on Poe’s legacy and the genre he helped create. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Laura Lippman is an Edgar Award-winning author of detective fiction, most famously for the Tess Monaghan series. And this summer, she has a new book on the New York Times Best Seller list called “Lady in the Lake.” Kurt Andersen recently visited Baltimore to talk to her for another story we’re working on: an American Icons hour about the tales of Edgar Allan Poe. Poe is best known for his gothic tales and poems, but he also wrote what are considered by many to be the first detective stories. As a mystery writer and lifelong Baltimore resident, Laura gave us her take on Poe’s legacy and the genre he helped create. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Laura Lippman is author of the chart-topping Tess Monaghan series. Plucky, resourceful Baltimore private eye Tess Monaghan is a consistent New York Times bestseller, and the dozen installments so far have garnered Lippman an international following. She has also published ten standalone books, including the acclaimed Every Secret Thing (2004) and After I’m Gone (2014), […]
Laura Lippman is author of the chart-topping Tess Monaghan series. Plucky, resourceful Baltimore private eye Tess Monaghan is a consistent New York Times bestseller, and the dozen installments so far have garnered Lippman an international following. She has also published ten standalone books, including the acclaimed Every Secret Thing (2004) and After I’m Gone (2014), and an intertwined anthology called […]
Laura Lippman is author of the chart-topping Tess Monaghan series. Plucky, resourceful Baltimore private eye Tess Monaghan is a consistent New York Times bestseller, and the dozen installments so far […]
In the second episode of Female Trouble, a podcast spotlighting women in Baltimore, Quinn talks to author Laura Lippman. Laura got her start as a reporter, spending 12 years working at The Baltimore Sun before transitioning to writing crime novels full-time. Laura has written stand-alone books and a series that follows reporter-turned-investigator Tess Monaghan. Her latest stand-alone, “Wilde Lake” (which is where Laura attended high school), follows a state’s attorney prosecuting a big case who is forced to confront her family’s past along the way. Laura discusses timelessness, endings in fiction, and what she’s tired of seeing in the genre.
On this season of Working, we visit the city of Baltimore, to talk to people about their jobs there. We're hoping to learn about how the city informs their work, and how they are shaping Baltimore itself, by working. On this first episode, crime novelist Laura Lippman tells us about how she first got started writing fiction, how she approaches writing and revising her books, and why she's tired of arguing about the validity of genre novels. She loves Baltimore despite its problems, and the city infuses her books, including the Tess Monaghan detective series. In a Slate Plus Extra, Lippman tells us about her connection to the progenitor of detective novels Edgar Allan Poe, another Baltimore citizen. If you’re a member, enjoy bonus segments and interview transcripts from Working, plus other great podcast exclusives. Start your two-week free trial at slate.com/workingplus. Email: working@slate.com Twitter: @Jacob_Brogan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On this season of Working, we visit the city of Baltimore, to talk to people about their jobs there. We're hoping to learn about how the city informs their work, and how they are shaping Baltimore itself, by working. On this first episode, crime novelist Laura Lippman tells us about how she first got started writing fiction, how she approaches writing and revising her books, and why she's tired of arguing about the validity of genre novels. She loves Baltimore despite its problems, and the city infuses her books, including the Tess Monaghan detective series. In a Slate Plus Extra, Lippman tells us about her connection to the progenitor of detective novels Edgar Allan Poe, another Baltimore citizen. If you’re a member, enjoy bonus segments and interview transcripts from Working, plus other great podcast exclusives. Start your two-week free trial at slate.com/workingplus. Email: working@slate.com Twitter: @Jacob_Brogan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In the final part of Laura Lippman's This Writing Life podcast, we begin by discussing trigger warnings: the fine line between offensiveness and individual sensitivities. ----more----From there we move to: how violence is portrayed on the newssecrets and Lippman's family'I was brought up by Southern parents. Don't ask anybody their age. Never talk about money. I think part of the reason I became a journalist it gave me license was to ask those questions...'Lippman and her heroines: Tess Monaghan and Luisa BrantLippman and her fatherhistory, taking down statues and the politics of women on $10'We are doing something right now, today, that is going to seem despicable in 50 years...'posterity, Lippman and crime fictioncrime v literary fiction: Lippman and the never-ending genre-wars'There are so many books. You have to be arrogant to have anything to say...'after some blatant references to The Wire, Richard Price and Dennis Lehane, we move to the social realist novela little afterword on James Crumley'Elmore Leonard is my role model'George Pelecanos, Elmore Leonard and Lippman's cute nose...what next?Laura Lippman's website is: here.
Laura Lippman is the author of 22 crime novels. In addition to her series featuring private investigator Tess Monaghan, she has written nine standalones. Lippman's new book Wilde Lake falls into the latter category. As often is the case with her one-offs, the context is deeply personal. Lippman herself grew up near the actual Wilde Lake in the Maryland district of Columbia. ----more---- In this first of three episodes, we begin by talking transatlantic travel, skip elegantly to Wilde Lake itself. From there it is but a few sentences to discussing the following: how books change when the author begins to discuss themwhat Wilde Lake is aboutthe echoes of To Kill a Mockingbirdthe thematic inspiration for the storylinerape allegations, the truth and historical sex crimes are perpetrators innocent until proven guilty?has society been changed by the Savile and Cosby cases?'how many slaves did our ancestors own?': how should families confront dark corners of their past?how morality changes over timePart 2/3 to follow. Laura Lippman's website is: here.
Sep. 5, 2015. Laura Lippman discusses "Hush, Hush" at the 2015 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Speaker Biography: Best-selling author Laura Lippman grew up in Baltimore and was a reporter for 20 years, including 12 years at the Baltimore Sun. She became a full-time author in 2001 after publishing seven novels in her acclaimed Tess Monaghan series while working as a journalist. Lippman has received multiple honors, including the Edgar Award, Anthony Award and Agatha Award. Her works include "What the Dead Know," "Every Secret Thing," "After I'm Gone," "Another Thing to Fall," "The Girl in the Green Raincoat" and her latest Tess Monaghan novel, "Hush, Hush." For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6943
Laura Lippman is heralded for thoughtful, timely crime novels set in her beloved hometown of Baltimore. Now a perennial New York Times bestseller, HUSH HUSH is her 12th book to feature private detective and new mother Tess Monaghan, working on a disturbing case involving murder and a manipulative mother.
The national movement away from bad eating habits has swept into New Orleans. In the town that cholesterol forgot we ve started demanding to know more about what s in what we eat and take more care in selecting what we prepare at home for ourselves and our families. Seth Hamstead opened full service butcher Cleaver and Co to source locally grown meat from producers he can go meet. From a location that is not exactly a realtor s dream in a less traveled part of Uptown, Cleaver and Co has a loyal and growing clientele of carnivores. Tess Monaghan came to New Orleans from Yale and dragged some classmates with her to open online farmer s market Good Eggs. Sourcing fresh, organic fruit and veggies from local growers, and artisinal foodstuffs from pies to puree, Good Eggs is not only a farmer s market, it s a farmer s market in your house they deliver See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Seth Hamstead from full service butcher [Cleaver and Co][link1] and Tess Monaghan from online farmer's market [Good Eggs][link2] lead the local revolution back to the future of good, old fashioned, locally grown, seasonal and sustainable food. And they deliver. [link1]: http://cleaverand.co/ [link2]: http://www.goodeggs.com/nola See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Laura Lippman appears at the 2011 National Book Festival. Speaker Biography: Laura Lippman grew up in Baltimore and was a reporter for 20 years, including 12 years at The (Baltimore) Sun. She began writing novels while working fulltime and published seven books about "accidental PI" Tess Monaghan before leaving daily journalism in 2001. Her work has been awarded the Edgar and the Agatha prizes, among many others. She was the first-ever recipient of the Mayor's Prize for Literary Excellence and the first genre writer recognized as Author of the Year by the Maryland Library Association. Her new novel is "The Most Dangerous Thing." For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5438.
A child's mysterious death, a young woman's romantic obsession, and a father's long-hidden secret converge in the gripping plot of Life Sentences, Laura Lippman's new novel. In this blazing tale of twisting suspense, Lippman raises difficult, illuminating questions about the nature of memory and truth.Laura Lippman is the author of 10 Tess Monaghan novels, plus four other suspense novels, a collection of short stories, and a mystery anthology. This "book launch" celebration is cosponsored with Mystery Loves Company bookstore.Recorded On: Tuesday, March 10, 2009