Laura Lippman

Filmed in Maryland, Lady in the Lake features Natalie Portman and Moses Ingram.

We’ll go On the Record with Baltimore’s queen of psychological thrillers, Laura Lippman. Her newest, Prom Mom, opens with tragedy the night of the Towson High prom … but it takes two decades of plot twists before we learn the depth of the evil.

'Seasonal Work' is twelve mysteries packed into one book, with the surprises and suspense that have won Laura Lippman publishing awards for twenty-five years. Most focus on kids, marriages and families in Baltimore. We ask her how--and why--she crams so much in.

Like most of Laura Lippman’s novels, her new book is set mostly in Baltimore … and centers on a smart woman with complicated motives. But this protagonist…

Baltimore; summer 1966. Tensions between white and black residents. Some women testing expectations. And then: a woman’s decomposed body turns up in Druid…

Laura Lippman’s latest mystery is called Sunburn -- but it’s not sunny; it’s noir. In the tradition of James M. Cain --The Postman Always Rings Twice --…

In the first few pages of Sunburn, we learn that its main character has walked out on her family--just left her husband and young daughter on a Delaware…