Order of Laura Lippman Books

Laura Lippman is an American novelist of detective fiction. The daughter of a writer for the Baltimore Sun, she started out as a reporter, which became the inspiration for her Tess Monaghan series – a reporter turned private investigator. She is married to David Simon, creator of The Wire, who she met while working at the Baltimore Sun.

Laura Lippman made her fiction debut with Baltimore Blues, published in 1997. Below is a list of Laura Lippman’s books in order of when they were originally published (and in chronological order):

Publication Order of Tess Monaghan Books

Baltimore Blues	(1997)
Charm City	(1997)
Butchers Hill	(1998)
In Big Trouble	(1999)
The Sugar House	(2000)
In a Strange City	(2001)
The Last Place	(2002)
By a Spider's Thread	(2004)
No Good Deeds	(2006)
Another Thing to Fall	(2008)
The Girl in the Green Raincoat	(2011)
Hush Hush	(2015)

Publication Order of Tess Monaghan Collections

The Tess Chronicles

(2018)

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Every Secret Thing	(2003)
To the Power of Three	(2005)
What the Dead Know	(2007)
Life Sentences	(2009)
I'd Know You Anywhere	(2010)
The Most Dangerous Thing	(2011)
And When She Was Good	(2012)
After I'm Gone	(2014)
Wilde Lake	(2016)
Sunburn	(2018)
Lady in the Lake	(2019)

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

Arm and the Woman	(2009)
The Babysitter's Code	(2009)
Black-Eyed Susan	(2009)
The Crack Cocaine Diet	(2009)
Dear Penthouse Forum (A First Draft)	(2009)
Easy as A-B-C	(2009)
Femme Fatale	(2009)
A Good Fuck Spoiled	(2009)
Honor Bar	(2009)
One True Love	(2009)
Pony Girl	(2009)
Scratch a Woman	(2009)
The Shoeshine Man's Regrets	(2009)
What He Needed	(2009)
The Book Thing	(2013)

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Hardly Knew Her	(2008)
By Hook or By Crook: And 27 More of the Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year	(2010)
Hints of Heloise	(2012)

Publication Order of Anthologies

Baltimore Noir

(2006)

Notes: What the Dead Know is alternatively titled Little Sister. I’d Know You Anywhere is also known as Don’t Look Back. The Most Dangerous Thing was also published as The Innocents. By Hook or By Crook also contains stories by Dana Cameron, Mary Higgins Clark, Max Allan Collins, Dennis Lehane, Marcia Muller, Kris Nelscott, Nancy Pickard, S.J. Rozan and Luis Alberto Urrea.

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