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Authors: Laura Lippman
L
AURA
L
IPPMAN
grew up in Baltimore and returned to her
hometown in 1989 to work as a journalist. After writing seven books while still
a full-time reporter, she left the Baltimore
Sun
to
focus on fiction. She is the author of eleven Tess Monaghan books, including
Baltimore Blues,
Another Thing to Fall,
and
The
Girl in the Green Raincoat;
five stand-alone novels, including
Every Secret Thing, To the Power of Three, What the Dead
Know,
and
Life Sentences;
and one short
story collection,
Hardly Knew Her.
She is also the
editor of another story collection,
Baltimore Noir.
Lippman has won numerous awards for her work, including the Edgar, Quill,
Anthony, Nero Wolfe, Agatha, Gumshoe, Barry, and Macavity.
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I’d Know You
Anywhere
The Girl in the Green
Raincoat
Life Sentences
Hardly Knew Her
Another Thing to
Fall
What the Dead
Know
No Good Deeds
To the Power of
Three
By a Spider’s
Thread
Every Secret
Thing
The Last Place
In a Strange City
The Sugar House
In Big Trouble
Butchers Hill
Charm City
Baltimore Blues
This book is a work of fiction. The
characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and
are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons,
living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
THE MOST DANGEROUS
THING
. Copyright © 2011 by Laura Lippman. All rights reserved under
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ISBN 978-0-06-170651-6
EPub Edition © September 2011 ISBN:
9780062092588
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