Charm City: A Tess Monaghan Novel

Charm City: A Tess Monaghan Novel by Lippman, Laura. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780061210037.

Reporter-turned-PI Tess Monaghan loves every inch of her native Baltimore—a quirky city where baseball reigns and homicide seems to be the second most popular sport. Business tycoon "Wink" Wynkowski wants to change all that by bringing pro basketball back to town—a laudable mission thats greeted with widespread cheers . . . until a muckraking front-page exposé of his past appears in the Beacon-Light. The Blights surprised editors are sure they killed the piece. Instead, the piece kills Wynkowski, whos discovered asphyxiated in his garage with his cars engine running. Now the paper wants former newshound Tess to track down the rogue computer hacker whose prank took a human life. But theres more than cyber-crime involved here—and Tess is about to discover firsthand that trying to stay alive in Charm City is murder these days.