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Laura Lippman

Since Laura Lippman's debut, she has been recognized as a distinctive voice in mystery fiction and named one of the "essential" crime writers of the last 100 years. Stephen King called her "special, even extraordinary," and Gillian Flynn wrote, "She is simply a brilliant novelist." Her books have won most of the major awards in her field and been translated into more than twenty-five languages. She lives in Baltimore and New Orleans with her teenager.

This biography was last updated on 06/17/2025.

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Murder Takes a Vacation jacket Lady in the Lake jacket Sunburn jacket Wilde Lake jacket Hush Hush jacket After I'm Gone jacket And When She Was Good jacket The Most Dangerous Thing jacket The Girl in the Green Raincoat jacket I'd Know You Anywhere jacket In Big Trouble jacket Life Sentences jacket Hardly Knew Her jacket Another Thing to Fall jacket What the Dead Know jacket No Good Deeds jacket The Power of Three jacket
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