Baltimore’s Laura Lippman has been publishing tales of suspense, and winning awards for them, for a quarter century. She doesn’t take for granted the devious characters and puckered plots that shape her stories.

"I keep trying to make this harder on myself. I think the scariest thing for me would be to sit at my computer and think: ‘This is easy, I know how to do this.’ I want to be kind of terrified.” 

We readers are kind of terrified, too, as we make our way through the twelve short stories in Lippman’s latest offering, a collection titled Seasonal Work. Healthy walks in Leakin Park. Common-wall brick houses on the west edge of town. Such common places, such ordinary things. And so many murders.

Links: Thurs. Jan 6: Laura Lippman: Seasonal Work Virtual Launch And 25 Years In Publishing Celebration (In Conversation With John Searles) hosted by Ivy Bookshop and Poetry and Prose, A Likely Story event on (info to come).

Baltimore&rsquo;s <a href="http://www.lauralippman.net/">Laura Lippman</a> has been publishing tales of suspense, and winning awards for them, for a quarter century. She doesn&rsquo;t take for granted the devious characters and puckered plots that shape her stories.
"I keep trying to make this harder on myself. I think the scariest thing for me would be to sit at my computer and think: &lsquo;This is easy, I know how to do this.&rsquo; I want to be kind of terrified.&rdquo;&nbsp;
We readers are kind of terrified, too, as we make our way through the twelve short stories in Lippman&rsquo;s latest offering, a collection titled Seasonal Work. Healthy walks in Leakin Park. Common-wall brick houses on the west edge of town. Such common places, such ordinary things. And so many murders.
Links: Thurs. Jan 6: <a href="https://www.theivybookshop.com/upcomingevent/28432">Laura Lippman: Seasonal Work Virtual Launch And 25 Years In Publishing Celebration </a>(In Conversation With John Searles) hosted by Ivy Bookshop and Poetry and Prose, A Likely Story event on (info to come).

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