title: In Big Trouble: A Tess Monaghan Novel
author:  Laura Lippman 
description: Edgar Award-winner Laura Lippman is developing a reputation as one of the most exciting new detective fiction authors in years. Now she delivers her most suspenseful novel yet, and places Baltimore's Tess Monaghan...
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  LAURA LIPPMAN
  
  IN BIG TROUBLE
  
  A TESS MONAGHAN MYSTERY
  
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  For the RCC’ers—
  
  Lisa Groves
  
  Jane Gundell
  
  Leslie Linthicum
  
  Ellen Perelman
  
  Guess what? Fin de siècle is here.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Contents
  
  Prologue
  
  A sign hangs next to the cradle of Texas liberty…
  
  Chapter 1
  
  Tess Monaghan hated surveillance work, something of a problem for…
  
  Chapter 2
  
  Crow’s photo from the newspaper stayed hidden in Tess’s datebook…
  
  Chapter 3
  
  Thirty-six hours later, Tess was en route to Charlottesville. She…
  
  Chapter 4
  
  Tess, who never paid close attention in seventh grade social…
  
  Chapter 5
  
  They took a break, heading back to Quadling Country to…
  
  Chapter 6
  
  The sheriff held a metal wastebasket beneath Tess’s chin. It…
  
  Chapter 7
  
  The front desk clerk at the Marriott in downtown San…
  
  Chapter 8
  
  Primo’s, the bar where Crow’s band had last played, was…
  
  Chapter 9
  
  He turned on his heel, but still in a crouch,…
  
  Chapter 10
  
  A telegram—now there was a concep